Ritual Theory, Ritual PracticeOxford University Press, 30/01/1992 - 288 páginas Ritual studies today figures as a central element of religious discourse for many scholars around the world. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice, Catherine Bell's sweeping and seminal work on the subject, helped legitimize the field. In this volume, Bell re-examines the issues, methods, and ramifications of our interest in ritual by concentrating on anthropology, sociology, and the history of religions. Now with a new foreword by Diane Jonte-Pace, Bell's work is a must-read for understanding the evolution of the field of ritual studies and its current state. |
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... theories of labor , his inversion ultimately suggested that the more common perspective was supported by an unexamined logic , which made it seem immediately convincing and right . I began to trace how the categories and rhetoric ...
... theories of labor , his inversion ultimately suggested that the more common perspective was supported by an unexamined logic , which made it seem immediately convincing and right . I began to trace how the categories and rhetoric ...
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... practices for several reasons . Most simply , ritual is so readily cast as action in opposition to thought and theory that the structuring effect of assumptions about thought and action can be traced with great clarity . Moreover ...
... practices for several reasons . Most simply , ritual is so readily cast as action in opposition to thought and theory that the structuring effect of assumptions about thought and action can be traced with great clarity . Moreover ...
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... theory of ritual - useful though these projects might be . The pur- pose of this book is both more ambitious and more pragmatic- to reassess what we have been doing with the category of ritual , why we have ended up where we are , and ...
... theory of ritual - useful though these projects might be . The pur- pose of this book is both more ambitious and more pragmatic- to reassess what we have been doing with the category of ritual , why we have ended up where we are , and ...
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... theory to suggest some of the strat- egies basic to other forms of practice and the social relationships these practices support . 12 The intellectual framework for ' doing theory ' has shifted dra- matically in the last twenty years ...
... theory to suggest some of the strat- egies basic to other forms of practice and the social relationships these practices support . 12 The intellectual framework for ' doing theory ' has shifted dra- matically in the last twenty years ...
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... theory of ritual by addressing the construction of the category itself and the role this construction has played in organizing a broad discourse on religion , society , and culture . Despite the differences among historians of religion ...
... theory of ritual by addressing the construction of the category itself and the role this construction has played in organizing a broad discourse on religion , society , and culture . Despite the differences among historians of religion ...
Índice
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Constructing Ritual | 19 |
Constructing Meaning | 30 |
Constructing Discourse | 47 |
Notes | 55 |
THE SENSE OF RITUAL | 67 |
Ritual Traditions and Systems | 118 |
Notes | 143 |
RITUAL AND POWER | 169 |
Ritual Control | 171 |
Ritual Belief and Ideology | 182 |
The Power of Ritualization | 197 |
Notes | 224 |
Bibliography | 239 |
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Abner Cohen Althusser analysis analyze Anthropology Approach to Ritual argues basic behavior beliefs Biogenetic Structural Bloch Bourdieu Chicago Press Claude Lévi-Strauss Comaroff concept consensus constituted construction context contrast David Cannadine defined dichotomy differentiation discourse discussion distinction dominant Durkheim dynamics E. E. Evans-Pritchard effective Eric Hobsbawn example focus formal Foucault Frits Staal Geertz Goody hegemony hierarchy ideology integration Interpretation of Cultures involves Jameson Jonathan Z Julian Huxley Lévi-Strauss logic Marxist meaning Merquior Meyer Fortes Michel Foucault Mircea Eliade notion of ritual object objectification oppositions participants particular performance perspective Political power relations Rappaport reality relationship religion religious rites ritual activities ritual practices ritual studies ritual theory schemes simply social body social control society specific strategies of ritualization structure suggests Tambiah textual theoretical theorist Theory of Practice theory of ritual thought and action tion tradition Turner Valeri Victor Turner York
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Página 147 - The mode of production in material life determines the general character of the social, political and spiritual processes of life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but, on the contrary, their social existence determines their consciousness.
Página 11 - Johannes Fabian, Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983); James Clifford, The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988).
Página 30 - Whenever Madrasi Brahmans (and non-Brahmans, too, for that matter) wished to exhibit to me some feature of Hinduism, they always referred to, or invited me to see, a particular rite or ceremony in the life cycle, in a temple festival, or in the general sphere of religious and cultural performances. Reflecting on this in the course of my interviews and observations, I found that the more abstract generalizations about Hinduism (my own as well as those I heard) could generally be checked, directly...
Página 172 - Norms and values, on the one hand, become saturated with emotion, while the gross and basic emotions become ennobled through contact with social values.
Página 201 - Every power relationship implies, at least in potentia, a strategy of struggle, in which the two forces are not superimposed, do not lose their specific nature, or do not finally become confused. Each constitutes for the other a kind of permanent limit, a point of possible reversal.
Página 27 - In a ritual, the world as lived and the world as imagined, fused under the agency of a single set of symbolic forms, turn out to be the same world, producing thus that idiosyncratic transformation in one's sense of reality to which Santayana refers in my epigraph.
Página 74 - As such, ritualization is a matter of various culturally specific strategies for setting some activities off from others, for creating and privileging a qualitative distinction between the 'sacred' and the 'profane,' and for ascribing such distinctions to realities thought to transcend the powers of human actors.