Ritual

Ritual

by Stewart, Pamela J. Strathern, Andrew

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Ritual / edited by Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern.

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2010.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Ashgate Pub. Co
  • Place of Publication:Farnham, Surrey (GB)
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2010.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 v. (XXIX-582 p.) : : illustrations ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780754627487, 0754627489
  • oclc:ocn758849684
  • LC Classification:GN473
  • Dewey Decimal:203.8

Table of Contents

Part I Definitions and Fundamentals: Variation and indexicality in the Maring ritual cycle, Roy A. Rappaport; Ritual symbols, syntax, and praxis: questions of cultural meaning and interpretation, Catherine Bell; Symbols, song, dance and features of articulation: is religion an extreme form of traditional authority?, Maurice Bloch; Embodiment and communication: 2 frames for the analysis of ritual, Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart. Part II Further Theoretical Categories and Considerations: The original significance of animal sacrifice, William Robertson Smith; The problem and its setting, Edmund R. Leach; Taboo, A.R. Radcliffe-Brown; The symbolic rite of 'giving thanks', Raymond Firth; Liminality and communitas, Victor W. Turner; Oracles support divine justice, Mary Douglas; Towards an integration of ethnography, history and the cognitive science of religion, Harvey Whitehouse; Against 'ritual': loosely structured thoughts on a loosely defined topic, Jack Goody; Toward a genealogy of the concept of ritual, Talal Asad; The body as geometer: cosmogonic practice, Pierre Bourdieu. Part III Topical Arenas and Examples: The rhetoric of transformation in ritual healing, Thomas J. Cso…

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Subjects

rite -- [études diverses] -- * anthropo… Rites and ceremonies Rites et cérémonies Ritual Rituel

Writers

Stewart, Pamela J. Strathern, Andrew

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