ISBN:
1-84545-051-5
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978-1-84545-051-9
Language:
English
Pages:
VII, 232 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
Paperback edition
Keywords:
Ritual Ritual und Zeremonie
;
Ethnographische Repräsentation
;
Identität
;
Europa
;
Mittelalter
;
Weinen
;
Heilbehandlung
;
Brasilien
;
Schamanismus
;
Polanyi, Karl [Leben und Werk]
;
Rappaport, Roy A. [Leben und Werk]
Abstract:
Historically, canonic studies of ritual have discussed and explained ritual organization, action, and transformation primarily as representations of broader cultural and social orders. In the present, as in the past, less attention is given to the power of ritual to organize and effect transformation through its own dynamics. Breaking with convention, the contributors to this volume were asked to discuss ritual first and foremost in relation to itself, in its own right, and only then in relation to its socio-cultural context. The results attest to the variable capacities of rites to effect transformation through themselves, and to the study of phenomena in their own right as a fertile approach to comprehending ritual dynamics. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface -- Introduction: Why ritual in its own right? How so?, Don Handelman -- Part I: Theorizing ritual: against reprsentation, against meaning -- Chapter 1. Ritual dynamics and virtual practice: beyond representation and meaning, Bruce Kapferer -- Chapter 2. Otherwise than meaning: on the generosity of ritual, Don Seeman -- Part II: Experimenting with ritual: natives here, natives there -- Chapter 3. The red and the black: a practical experiment for thinking about ritual, Michael Houseman -- Chapter 4. Partial discontinuity: the mark of ritual, André Iteanu -- Part III: Ritual and emergence: historical, phenomenal -- Chapter 5. Religious weeping as ritual in the medieval west, Piroska Nagy -- Chapter 6. Enjoying an emerging alternative world: ritual in its own ludic right, André Droogers -- Part IV: Healing in its own right: spirit worlds -- Chapter 7. Bringing the soul back to the self: soul retrieval in neo-shamanism, Galina Lindquist -- Chapter 8. Treating the sick with a morality play: the Kardecist-spiritist disobsession in Brazil, Sidney M. Greenfield -- Part V: Philosophically speaking -- Chapter 9. The tacit logic of ritual embodiments: Rappaport and Polanyi between thick and thin, Robert E. Innis -- Epilogue: Toing and froing the social, Don Handelman -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Note:
"First published in 2004 by Berghahn Books; Social analysis, volume 48, issue 2, summer 2004" (Rückseite des Titelblattes)Enthält Einführung und Nachwort, und 9 Beiträge
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