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The archetypal actions of ritual / Caroline Humphrey and James Laidlaw.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Humphrey, Caroline, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jainism--Rituals.
- Jainism.
- Worship (Jainism).
- Ritual.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 293 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Presents a general theory of ritual by drawing on an ethnographically rich account of the ritual worship of the Jains of western India. The authors argue that ritual is not a logically separate type of activity, but rather a quality that can be attributed to a much wider range of everyday activity.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1994.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-01666-6
- 0-19-827947-7
- OCLC:
- 1406788844
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb30600 hdl
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