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Understanding rituals / edited by Daniel de Coppet

Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 120 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Coppet, Daniel de.
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction; Ritual as spatial direction and bodily division; From one rite to another: the memory in ritual and the ethnologist's recollection; Brothers and sisters in Brahmanic India; The brother; married-sister relationship and marriage ceremonies as sacrificial rites: a case study from northern India; Transforming Tobelo ritual; Ritual implicates 'Others': rereading Durkheim in a plural society; Name index; Subject index.
Summary
Within any society, rituals create, maintain and transform cultural identity and social relations. Daniel de Coppet presents six different contributions on how to understand ritual within the frame of contemporary social anthropology.
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ISBN
0203413210 (electronic bk.)
9780203413210 (electronic bk.)
0203316320 (electronic bk.)
9780203316320 (electronic bk.)
9786610069354
6610069352
9780415061209
0415061202
9780415061216
0415061210
9781134926633 (e-book ; PDF)
1134926634
9781134926589 (e-book ; Mobi)
1134926588
9781134926626 (e-book ; ePub)
1134926626
128006935X
9781280069352
0415061210 (Paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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