Ritual in its own right : exploring the dynamics of transformation /: exploring the dynamics of transformation. (2005)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Don Handelman and Galina Lindquist.
• Other Names: Handelman, Don; Lindquist, Galina
• Contents: Introduction : Why ritual in its own right? How so? / Don Handelman -- Ritual dynamics and virtual practice : beyond representation and meaning / Bruce Kapferer -- Otherwise than meaning : on the generosity of ritual / Don Seeman -- The red and the black : a practical experiment for thinking about ritual / Michael Houseman -- Partial discontinuity : the mark of ritual / André Iteanu -- Religious weeping as ritual in the medieval west / Piroska Nagy -- Enjoying an emerging alternative world : ritual in its own ludic right / André Droogers -- Bringing the soul back to the self : soul retrieval in neo-shamanism / Galina Lindquist -- Treating the sick with a morality play : the Kardecist-spiritist disobsession in Brazil / Sidney M. Greenfield -- The tacit logic of ritual embodiments : Rappaport and Polanyi between thick and thin / Robert E. Innis -- Epilogue : Toing and froing the social / Don Handelman.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (242 pages)
• Subjects: 306.4; Rites and ceremonies; Ritual; Ceremonial exchange; Riten; Rites et cérémonies; Rituel; Échange cérémoniel; Ceremonial exchange; Rites and ceremonies; Ritual; Riten; Kulturanthropologie; Ritual; Kulturanthropologie; Ritual; Aufsatzsammlung
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857458889; 0857458884
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.