Understanding rituals / / edited by Daniel de Coppet

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (129 p.)
• Disciplina: 301; 390
• Soggetto topico: Rites and ceremonies; Ritual
• Altri autori: CoppetDaniel de
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Understanding rituals
• ISBN: 1-134-92662-6; 0-203-41321-0; 1-280-06935-X; 0-203-31632-0; 9786610069354; 1-134-92663-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787726403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: European Association of Social Anthropologists