Negotiating rites /

Ritual has been long viewed as an indisputable part of tradition with the aim of creating harmony and enabling a tradition's survival. The authors in this collection argue, however, that this view can be seriously challenged and that ritual's embeddedness in negotiation processes is one of...

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Other Authors: Hüsken, Ute, Neubert, Frank
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Series:Oxford ritual studies.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; PART ONE: SHARING A WORLD; 1. Negotiating Karma: Penance in the Classical Indian Law Books; 2. Negotiations at Death: Assessing Gifts, Mothers, and Marriages; 3. "The Clitoris Is Indeed Your Sweet": Negotiating Gender Roles in the Ritual Setting of the Swahili New Year's Festival; 4. Ritual Negotiations in Lutherland; 5. Negotiating Rites in Imperial China: The Case of Northern Song Court Ritual Debates from 1034 to 1093; PART TWO: GETTING IT STRAIGHT; 6. Performing the Ancient Ones: The Body-in-Practice as the Ground of Ritualized Negotiation
  • 13. Buddhist Ordination as Initiation Ritual and Legal Procedure14. Negotiating the Social in the Ritual Theory of Victor Turner and Roy Rappaport; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y