Understanding rituals
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Understanding rituals
（European Association of Social Anthropologists）
Routledge, 1992
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
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: hb ISBN 9780415061209
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.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415061216
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.
Table of Contents
List of contributors. Introduction Daniel de Coppet. 1. Transforming Tobelo ritual JDM 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.
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