The dysfunction of ritual in early Confucianism /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Multiple languages English Chinese |
| Language Notes: | Includes passages in Chinese with English translations. |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2012]
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| Series: | Oxford ritual studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Ritual in the Liji
- Typology of dysfunction
- Coming to terms with dysfunction
- Preventing
- Inevitability of failure
- Whose fault is failure? Ambiguity and impinging agencies
- Ancients did not fix their graves
- Productive anxieties and the awfulness of failed ritual
- Concluding reflections: toward a tragic theory of ritual
- On the textual composition of the Liji.