ABSTRACT
The ethnographic facts suggest some general properties of human ritual communication, whether it be in formal rituals such as weddings and initiations or in everyday rituals such as handshakes and observances of table manners. Kri speakers ritually regularize the risks and opportunities that co-presence provides, enforcing the standards generally enjoined in the community. The patterns by which people in the Kri world regularize their spatial distribution in the house provide an external, physical representation of the conceptual structure underlying norms of Kri social organization. Human social interaction seldom if ever goes without some attention to everyday ritual, buckling to its constraints as in formal ritual. Kri people's daily behavior surrounding the house constitutes a domain of everyday ritual in which members of the community constantly display their cooperation with morally sanctionable social norms.
