Ritual, performance and the senses
Michael Bull and Jon P. Mitchell ; contributors, Michael Bull [and eight others].
Bok Engelsk 2015 · Electronic books.
| Medvirkende | Mitchell, Jon P., (author.)
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (219 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - FC; Half title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction Michael Bull and Jon P. Mitchell; 1 Ontology, Mimesis, and Divine Intervention: Understanding Catholic Visionaries Jon P. Mitchell; 2 Ritual Action Shapes Our Brains: An Essay in Neuroanthropology Robert Turner; 3 The Importance of Repetition: Ritual as a Support to Mind Greg Downey; 4 Place-making in the "Holy of Holies": The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem Trevor H. J. Marchand; 5 The Spaces and Places of Ramnagar Ramlila Richard Schechner. - 6 "Inner Movement" between Practices of Meditation, Martial Arts, and Acting: A Focused Examination of Affect, Feeling, Sensing, and Sensory Attunement Phillip B. Zarrilli7 Exploring the Andean Sensory Model: Knowledge, Memory, and the Experience of Pilgrimage Zoila Mendoza; 8 Sensation and Transmission David Howes; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - Ritual, Performance and the Senses is a unique and timely collection at the heart of which is an experiment in anthropological theory. It explores the possibility of developing a new anthropology of ritual by combining theoretical insights from three distinct domains of anthropological inquiry: cognitive/neuroanthropology, performance studies and the anthropology of the senses. These three areas of study are often considered, and indeed operate institutionally, as distinct academic sub-fields, and yet they share substantive objects of study, with their focus on experience, the body and the r
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| ISBN | 0-85785-497-6. - 1-000-18959-7. - 1-003-08659-4. - 1-350-00151-1. - 1-4742-1771-0
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