Ritual Play

Rituals permeate our daily life. We create personal rituals and participate in collective ones. Harking back to the earliest humans, who made cave paintings to ensure a bountiful hunt, rituals are unavoidable, even in contemporary times. Even if we don’t classify the action as such, they function as markers for many of life’s significant events and are formative of who we are and define us in our relation to wider society. While meanings of rituals may have evolved over time we may cling to them as traditions sometimes unaware of their origins.