Moments of ritual reveal symbolic meanings, reinforce boundaries of the social group, and tie actors to one another. Because rituals are so important to social life, ethnographers must be attuned to both institutionalized and everyday rituals of their sites. However, methodological literature rarely discusses how everyday rituals should be treated during data collection, analysis, or presentation. We use data from two ethnographic sites—a yoga studio and training for health care volunteers—to illustrate the challenges of observing others during rituals and making sense of our own experiences of rituals, especially given varying levels of participation and resistance to rituals. We argue that greater reflexivity, especially of embodied experiences, is needed when studying everyday rituals and provide methodological recommendations for improving ethnographic study.

仪式的时刻揭示了象征意义，加强了社会群体的界限，并将演员彼此联系起来。因为仪式对社会生活如此重要，民族志学家必须适应他们所在地的制度化和日常仪式。然而，方法论文献很少讨论在数据收集、分析或展示过程中应该如何处理日常仪式。我们使用来自两个民族志网站（一个瑜伽工作室和医疗志愿者培训）的数据来说明在仪式中观察他人和理解我们自己的仪式经历所面临的挑战，特别是考虑到不同程度的参与和对仪式的抵制。我们认为，更大的反身性，尤其是具身经验，