Ritual in its own right : exploring the dynamics of transformation / edited by Don Handelman and Galina Lindquist.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Handelman, Don, editor.

Lindquist, Galina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rites and ceremonies.

Ritual.

Ceremonial exchange.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

part I. Theorizing ritual : against representation, against meaning

part II. Experimenting with ritual : natives here, natives there

part III. Ritual and emergence : historical, phenomenal

part IV. Healing in its own right : spirit worlds

part V. Philosophically speaking.

Notes:

"First published in 2004 by Berghahn Books; Social analysis, volume 48, issue 2, summer 2004"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780857458889

0857458884