Negotiating rites / edited by Ute Husken, Frank Neubert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hüsken, Ute.

Neubert, Frank.

Series:

Oxford ritual studies.

Oxford ritual studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ritual.

Negotiation--Religious aspects.

Negotiation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ritual has been long viewed as an indisputable part of tradition with the aim of creating harmony and enabling a tradition's survival. The authors in this collection argue, however, that this view can be seriously challenged and that ritual's embeddedness in negotiation processes is one of its central features.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; PART ONE: SHARING A WORLD; 1. Negotiating Karma: Penance in the Classical Indian Law Books; 2. Negotiations at Death: Assessing Gifts, Mothers, and Marriages; 3. "The Clitoris Is Indeed Your Sweet": Negotiating Gender Roles in the Ritual Setting of the Swahili New Year's Festival; 4. Ritual Negotiations in Lutherland; 5. Negotiating Rites in Imperial China: The Case of Northern Song Court Ritual Debates from 1034 to 1093; PART TWO: GETTING IT STRAIGHT; 6. Performing the Ancient Ones: The Body-in-Practice as the Ground of Ritualized Negotiation

13. Buddhist Ordination as Initiation Ritual and Legal Procedure14. Negotiating the Social in the Ritual Theory of Victor Turner and Roy Rappaport; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 20, 2012).

ISBN:

0-19-981231-4

0-19-981230-6

9786613423191

1-283-42319-7

OCLC:

776943811