The interpretation of ritual: essays in honour of A. I. Richards / edited by J. S. La Fontaine
- Author
- La Fontaine, J. S. (Jean Sybil), 1931-
- Published
- [London] : Tavistock Publications, [1972]
- Physical Description
- xviii, 296 pages : portrait ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators
- Richards, Audrey I. (Audrey Isabel), 1899-1984
- Contents
- Introduction, by J. S. La Fontaine -- Verbal and bodily rituals of greeting and parting, by R. Firth -- Greeting, begging, and the presentation of respect, by E. Goody -- Twinship and symbolic structure, by A. Southall -- Spirit, twins, and ashes in Labwor, Northern Uganda, by R. G. Abrahams -- Belief and the problem of women, by E. Ardener -- Ritualization of women's life-crises in Bugisu, by J. S. La Fontaine -- The wedding cakes: a study of ritual change, by M. Wilson -- The significance of kava in Tongan myth and ritual, by E. Bott and E. Leach -- Psychoanalysis and ceremony, by E. Bott -- The structure of symbolism, by E. Leach -- A rejoinder to Edmund Leach, by E. Bott -- Appendix, by E. Leach -- Bibliography of the principal writings of Audrey Richards, by P. H. Gulliver. (p. [285]-289).
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0422738808
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographies.
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