Ze Hong

Apr 1, 2024 | journals.uchicago.edu | Ze Hong |Edward Slingerland |Joseph Henrich

Ritual protocols aimed at rainmaking have been a recurrent sociocultural phenomenon across societies and throughout history. Given the fact that such protocols were likely entirely ineffective, why did they repeatedly emerge and persist, sometimes over millennia, even in populations with writing and recordkeeping?

Feb 1, 2024 | rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Ze Hong

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Sep 18, 2023 | anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Ze Hong |Joseph Henrich

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