Wonders of the Modern World – Notes for a Research Program

In his Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough, Ludwig ­Wittgenstein writes:

“One could begin a book on anthropology in this way: when one observes the life and behavior of humans all over the earth, one sees that apart from the kinds of behavior one could call animal, the intake of food, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, humans also carry out actions that bear a peculiar character, and might be called ritual actions.”¹