Understanding Rituals

Erscheinungsjahr 1992
ISBN: 978-0-415-06121-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 132 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 177 g

Reihe: European Association of Social Anthropologists

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

De Coppet, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Ritual as spatial direction and bodily division 2 From one rite to another: the memory in ritual and the 26 ethnologist’s recollection 3 Brothers and sisters in Brahmanic India 4 The brother—married-sister relationship and marriage ceremonies as sacrificial rites: a case study from northern India 5 Transforming Tobelo ritual 6 Ritual implicates ‘Others’: rereading Durkheim in a plural society

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel de Coppet is Directeur d’Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.