Understanding Rituals

by Daniel de Coppet (Editor)

Overview

Understanding Rituals explores how ritual can be understood within the framework of contemporary social anthropology, and shows that ritual is now one of the most fertile fields of anthropological research. The contributors demonstrate how rituals create and maintain - or transform - a society's cultural identity and social relations. By examining specific rituals from various theoretical viewpoints, they reveal the ultimate and contradictory values to which each society as a whole is attached.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415061216
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/29/1992
Series:	European Association of Social Anthropologists
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	132
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Daniel de Coppet is Directeur d’Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Table of Contents

1 Ritual as spatial direction and bodily division 2 From one rite to another: the memory in ritual and the 26 ethnologist’s recollection 3 Brothers and sisters in Brahmanic India 4 The brother—married-sister relationship and marriage ceremonies as sacrificial rites: a case study from northern India 5 Transforming Tobelo ritual 6 Ritual implicates ‘Others’: rereading Durkheim in a plural society