Ritual

by Stewart, Pamela J. Strathern, Andrew

Type Book

Rate 0.0 /5

Details

Files

Reviews

Download

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, England
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxix, 582 pages.).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781315244099 (electronic bk), 1315244098 (electronic bk)
oclc:on1100471317
LC Classification:GN473
Dewey Decimal:306.4

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…