Understanding Rituals
Published on 29. October 1992
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-0-415-06120-9 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-06120-9 (9780415061209)
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Content
1. Transforming Tobelo ritual, J.D.M. Platenkamp; 2. Ritual as spatial direction and bodily division, David Parkin; 3. Ritual implicates "others" - Re-reading Durkheim in a plural society, Gerd Baumann; 4. Brothers and sisters in Brahmanic India, Charles Malamoud; 5. From one rite to another - the memory in ritual and the ethnologist's (recollection) (re-memorisation?), Michel Carty; 6. The brother-married sister relationship and marriage rites as sacrificial rites - a case study in Northern India, Raymond Jamous.