Ritual in Its Own Right

Exploring the Dynamics of Transformation

Don Handelman, Galina Lindquist (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

242 Seiten

2005
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-84545-051-9 (ISBN)

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Historically, canonic studies of ritual have discussed and explained ritual organization, action, and transformation primarily as representations of broader cultural and social orders. In the present, as in the past, less attention is given to the power of ritual to organize and effect transformation through its own dynamics. Breaking with convention, the contributors to this volume were asked to discuss ritual first and foremost in relation to itself, in its own right, and only then in relation to its socio-cultural context. The results attest to the variable capacities of rites to effect transformation through themselves, and to the study of phenomena in their own right as a fertile approach to comprehending ritual dynamics.

Born in Montreal, Don Handelman is Sarah Allen Shaine Professor of Anthropology & Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1971. He has been a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Collegium Budapest: Institute for Advanced Study, and the Institute for Advanced Study at The Hebrew University, and the Olof Palme Visiting Professor of the Swedish Social Science Research Council. His field research has been in the Great Basin, Newfoundland, Israel, and Andhra Pradesh. He has written extensively on ritual, play, expressive culture, and bureaucratic logic and the modern state, and is the author of Models and Mirrors: Towards an Anthropology of Public Events, Berghahn Books, 1998; Nationalism and the Israeli State: Bureaucratic Logic in Public Events, 2004; and with David Shulman is the coauthor of God Inside Out: Siva's Game of Dice (1997) and Siva in the Forest of Pines: An Essay on Sorcery and Self Knowledge (2004).

Preface

Introduction: Why Ritual in Its Own Right? How So?

Don Handelman

PART I: THEORIZING RITUAL: AGAINST REPRSENTATION, AGAINST MEANING

Chapter 1. Ritual Dynamics and Virtual Practice: Beyond Representation and Meaning

Bruce Kapferer

Chapter 2. Otherwise Than Meaning: On the Generosity of Ritual

Don Seeman

PART II: EXPERIMENTING WITH RITUAL: NATIVES HERE, NATIVES THERE

Chapter 3. The Red and the Black: A Practical Experiment for Thinking about Ritual

Michael Houseman

Chapter 4. Partial Discontinuity: The Mark of Ritual

André Iteanu

PART III: RITUAL AND EMERGENCE: HISTORICAL, PHENOMENAL

Chapter 5. Religious Weeping as Ritual in the Medieval West

Piroska Nagy

Chapter 6. Enjoying an Emerging Alternative World: Ritual in Its Own Ludic Right

André Droogers

PART IV: HEALING IN ITS OWN RIGHT: SPIRIT WORLDS

Chapter 7. Bringing the Soul Back to the Self: Soul Retrieval in Neo-shamanism

Galina Lindquist

Chapter 8. Treating the Sick with a Morality Play: The Kardecist-Spiritist Disobsession in Brazil

Sidney M. Greenfield

PART V: PHILOSOPHICALLY SPEAKING

Chapter 9. The Tacit Logic of Ritual Embodiments: Rappaport and Polanyi between Thick and Thin

Robert E. Innis

Epilogue: Toing and Froing the Social

Don Handelman

Notes on Contributors

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.1.2005
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	331 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-84545-051-5 / 1845450515
ISBN-13	978-1-84545-051-9 / 9781845450519
Zustand	Neuware