Description |
1 online resource (viii, 120 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
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European Association of Social Anthropologists
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European Association of Social Anthropologists (Series)
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Rites and ceremonies.
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Rites and ceremonies. |
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Ritual.
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Ritual. |
Indexed Term |
Rituals |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Coppet, Daniel de.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Understanding rituals. London ; New York : Routledge, 1992 (DLC) 92005657 |
ISBN |
0203413210 (electronic book) |
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9780203413210 (electronic book) |
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0203316320 (electronic book) |
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9780203316320 (electronic book) |
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0415061210 (Paper) |
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0415061202 |
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