ISBN:
9780199372362
,
9780199372355
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 282 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme
Edition:
2. Auflage
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Tofighi, Fatima Discourse and the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification, Bruce Lincoln, Oxford University Press, 2014 (ISBN 978-0-19-937236-2), xi + 282 pp., pb £23.99 2017
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Social structure
;
Myth
;
Ritual
;
Classification
;
Symbolism
;
Social change
;
Ritual
;
Gesellschaft
;
Mythos
;
Gesellschaft
;
Klassifikation
;
Gesellschaft
Abstract:
Myth, sentiment, and the construction of social forms -- The politics of myth -- Competing uses of the future in the present -- Ritual, rebellion, resistance : rethinking the Swazi Ncwala -- Banquets and brawls : aspects of ceremonial meals -- Festivals and massacres : reflections on St. Bartholomew's Day -- Revolutionary exhumations in Spain -- The tyranny of taxonomy -- The dialectics of symbolic inversion -- The uses of anomaly -- The mythic sisterhood of Europe and Asia -- "We are all related" : the limits of inclusion at a Lakota sun dance -- Food, filth, and religious community
Description / Table of Contents:
Myth, sentiment, and the construction of social formsThe politics of myth -- Competing uses of the future in the present -- Ritual, rebellion, resistance : rethinking the Swazi Ncwala -- Banquets and brawls : aspects of ceremonial meals -- Festivals and massacres : reflections on St. Bartholomew's Day -- Revolutionary exhumations in Spain -- The tyranny of taxonomy -- The dialectics of symbolic inversion -- The uses of anomaly -- The mythic sisterhood of Europe and Asia -- "We are all related" : the limits of inclusion at a Lakota sun dance -- Food, filth, and religious community.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 251-264
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