Understanding Rituals
Daniel. de Coppet
Bok Engelsk 2002 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2002.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (129 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction; Ritual as spatial direction and bodily division; From one rite to another: the memory in ritual and the ethnologist's recollection; Brothers and sisters in Brahmanic India; The brother; married-sister relationship and marriage ceremonies as sacrificial rites: a case study from northern India; Transforming Tobelo ritual; Ritual implicates 'Others': rereading Durkheim in a plural society; Name index; Subject index. - Understanding Rituals explores how ritual can be understood within the framework of contemporary social anthropology, and shows that ritual is now one of the most fertile fields of anthropological research. The contributors demonstrate how rituals create and maintain - or transform - a society's cultural identity and social relations. By examining specific rituals from various theoretical viewpoints, they reveal the ultimate and contradictory values to which each society as a whole is attached.
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| ISBN | 0-203-31632-0. - 0-203-41321-0. - 1-134-92662-6. - 1-134-92663-4. - 1-280-06935-X. - 9786610069354
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