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The phrase “the courage of its conventions” is owed to Jim McCue (1997), Edmund Burke and our Present Discontents, p 162. For ritual as establisher of fact, see Maurice Bloch (1989), Ritual, History and Power, pp 29 and 45. For a discussion of rituals as mechanisms for cultural internalisation, see Carl Folke, Fikret Berkes and Johan Colding, “Ecological Practices and Social Mechanisms for Building Resilience and Sustainability”, in Berkes and Folke, eds. (1998), Linking Social and Ecological Systems, pp 414–436.