Chapter 6 of our textbook Cultural Anthropology, highlights the importance of rituals in everyday life. The book describes a ritual as having four parts. This includes a repetitive social practice, being set off from routine life, adhering to a ritual schema, and involving actions that are encoded in myth. Traditions are another way to describe a ritual. They are routine processes that mean something and never change due to their important significance. As an example, we are given a birthday party scenario described in the way that it's rituals occur. From the invitations, gifts, cake, singing, etc. it is all the same and offers little to no change in the way they are performed. When thinking about an event like this, it is hard to remember
