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Understanding rituals /

Additional authors: Coppet, Daniel de.
Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists Published by : Routledge, (London ; | New York :) Physical details: 1 online resource (viii, 120 pages) : illustrations. ISBN:0203413210; 9780203413210; 0203316320; 9780203316320.
Subject(s): Rites and ceremonies. | Ritual. | SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions. | Rites and ceremonies. | Ritual. | Rituals | Electronic books.
Year: 1992
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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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.

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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