ISBN:
0203413210
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9780203413210
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0203316320
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9780203316320
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (viii, 120 pages)
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illustrations.
Series Statement:
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Parallel Title:
Print version Understanding rituals
DDC:
390
Keywords:
Rites and ceremonies
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Ritual
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Rites and ceremonies
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Ritual
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Customs & Traditions
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Rites and ceremonies
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Ritual
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Social & Cultural Anthropology
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Anthropology
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Social Sciences
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Electronic books
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Electronic books Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Within any society, rituals create, maintain and transform cultural identity and social relations. Daniel de Coppet presents six different contributions on how to understand ritual within the frame of contemporary social anthropology
Description / Table of Contents:
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;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - Print version record
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