02618nam 2200577Ia 450 991096536960332120251117110340.01-134-92662-60-203-41321-01-280-06935-X0-203-31632-097866100693541-134-92663-410.4324/9780203413210 (CKB)2670000000519427(EBL)178522(OCoLC)646720042(MiAaPQ)EBC178522(OCoLC)252916100(EXLCZ)99267000000051942719930420d1992 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierUnderstanding rituals /edited by Daniel de Coppet1st ed.London ;New York Routledge19921 online resource (129 p.)European Association of Social AnthropologistsDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-06120-2 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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 indexUnderstanding 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.European Association of Social AnthropologistsRites and ceremoniesRitualRites and ceremonies.Ritual.390Coppet Daniel de445713European Association of Social Anthropologists.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910965369603321Understanding rituals4483164UNINA