Editing Ritual (section)

===Traditionalism===
[[File:The First Thanksgiving cph.3g04961.jpg|thumb|''The First Thanksgiving 1621'', oil on canvas by [[Jean Leon Gerome Ferris]] (1863–1930). The painting shows common misconceptions about the event that persist to modern times: Pilgrims did not wear such outfits, and the Wampanoag are dressed in the style of [[Plains Indians]].<ref>{{cite news | title=LET'S TALK TURKEY: 5 myths about the Thanksgiving holiday | newspaper=[[The Patriot Ledger]] | date=November 26, 2009 | url=http://www.wickedlocal.com/capecod/visitor_guide/fun/x1945267987/LETS-TALK-TURKEY-5-myths-about-the-Thanksgiving-holiday?img=2 | access-date=2010-08-01 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114044805/http://www.wickedlocal.com/capecod/visitor_guide/fun/x1945267987/LETS-TALK-TURKEY-5-myths-about-the-Thanksgiving-holiday?img=2 | archive-date=November 14, 2013 }}</ref>]]

Rituals appeal to tradition and are generally continued to repeat historical precedent, religious rite, [[mores]], or [[ceremony]] accurately. Traditionalism varies from formalism in that the ritual may not be formal yet still makes an appeal to the historical trend. An example is the American Thanksgiving dinner, which may not be formal, yet is ostensibly based on an event from the early Puritan settlement of America. Historians [[Eric Hobsbawm]] and [[Terrence Ranger]] have argued that many of these are ''[[invented traditions]]'', such as the rituals of the British monarchy, which invoke "thousand year-old tradition" but whose actual form originate in the late nineteenth century, to some extent reviving earlier forms, in this case medieval, that had been discontinued in the meantime. Thus, the appeal to history is important rather than accurate historical transmission.{{sfnp|Bell|1997|pp=[https://archive.org/details/ritualperspectiv00bell/page/n161 145]–150}}