Understanding Rituals
Published on 1. November 2002
144 pages
978-1-134-92663-3 (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
File size
0,76 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-92663-3 (9781134926633)
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Daniel de Coppet
Understanding Rituals
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10/1992
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€88.09
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Daniel de Coppet is Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Content
1 Ritual as spatial direction and bodily division 2 From one rite to another: the memory in ritual and the 26 ethnologist's recollection 3 Brothers and sisters in Brahmanic India 4 The brother-married-sister relationship and marriage ceremonies as sacrificial rites: a case study from northern India 5 Transforming Tobelo ritual 6 Ritual implicates 'Others': rereading Durkheim in a plural society
