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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463488903321

Autore

de Coppet Daniel

Titolo

Understanding Rituals [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2002

ISBN

1-134-92663-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (129 p.)

Collana

European Association of Social Anthropologists

Disciplina

301

390

Soggetti

Rites and ceremonies

Ritual

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction; Ritual as spatial direction and bodily division; From one rite to another: the memory in ritual and the ethnologist's recollection; Brothers and sisters in Brahmanic India; The brother; married-sister relationship and marriage ceremonies as sacrificial rites: a case study from northern India; Transforming Tobelo ritual; Ritual implicates 'Others': rereading Durkheim in a plural society; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

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.