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Informationen zum Autor Pamela J. Stewart! Professor and Andrew Strathern! Professor both at Department of Anthropology! University of Pittsburgh! USA Zusammenfassung This volume is a unique research tool for those interested in pursuing the study of ritual processes in depth. The papers selected cover classic and recent themes and display both historical and contemporary approaches. The introduction complements the selection of papers with an overall survey of the field and with critical reflections on the topics covered. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction! Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart; Part I Definitions and Fundamentals: Variation and indexicality in the Maring ritual cycle! Roy A. Rappaport; Ritual symbols! syntax! and praxis: questions of cultural meaning and interpretation! Catherine Bell; Symbols! song! dance and features of articulation: is religion an extreme form of traditional authority?! Maurice Bloch; Embodiment and communication: 2 frames for the analysis of ritual! Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart. Part II Further Theoretical Categories and Considerations: The original significance of animal sacrifice! William Robertson Smith; The problem and its setting! Edmund R. Leach; Taboo! A.R. Radcliffe-Brown; The symbolic rite of 'giving thanks'! Raymond Firth; Liminality and communitas! Victor W. Turner; Oracles support divine justice! Mary Douglas; Towards an integration of ethnography! history and the cognitive science of religion! Harvey Whitehouse; Against 'ritual': loosely structured thoughts on a loosely defined topic! Jack Goody; Toward a genealogy of the concept of ritual! Talal Asad; The body as geometer: cosmogonic practice! Pierre Bourdieu. Part III Topical Arenas and Examples: The rhetoric of transformation in ritual healing! Thomas J. Csordas; Shamanic performances: issues of performativity and comparison! Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart; Shamanic performance and cosmological praxis! Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern; Ritual communication and linguistic ideology: a reading and partial reformulation of Rappaport's theory of ritual! Joel Robbins; The Gardens of Omarakana: early work! Bronislaw Malinowski; The magical power of words! S.J. Tambiah; Puberty rites! women's naven! and initiation: women's rituals of transition in Abelam and Iatmul culture! Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin; Female spirit cults as a window on gender relations in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea! Pamela J! Stewart and Andrew Strathern; Silent forms but natural symbols?! Gilbert Lewis; Power and placement in blood practices! Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern; Pietas in ancestor worship: the Henry Myers Lecture! 1960! Meyer Fortes; Cosmology! resources! and landscape: agencies of the dead and the living in Duna! Papua New Guinea! Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern; Israel! America! and the ancestors: narratives of spiritual warfare in a Pentecostal denomination in Solomon Islands! Jolene Marie Stritecky; Blood! fire! and word: Luo! Christian and Luo-Christian sacrifice! Parker Shipton; Sacrifice and social structure among the Kuranko! Michael Jackson; The meaning of sacrifice! Edward E. Evans-Pritchard; 'Cattle aren't killed for nothing': Christianity! conversion! and the enduring importance of prophets! Sharon Hutchinson; Ritual and social change: a Javanese example! Clifford Geertz; Name Index. ...
