sentences:  At one extreme we have actions which are entirely profane, entirely functional, technique pure and simple; at the other we have actions which are entirely sacred, strictly aesthetic, technically non-functional.Between these two extremes we have the great majority of social actions which partake partly of the one sphere and partly of the other.From this point of view technique and ritual, profane and sacred, do not denote "types" of action but "aspects" of almost any kind of action."