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Understanding Rituals
ISBN: 9780415061216 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Understanding Rituals explores how ritual can be understood within the framework of contemporary social anthropology, and shows that ritual is now one of the most fertile fields of anthropological research. The contributors demonstrate how rituals create and maintain - or transform - a society's cultural identity and social relations. By examining specific rituals from various theoretical viewpoints, they reveal the ultimate and contradictory values to which each society as a whole is attached.
Understanding Rituals explores how ritual can be understood within the framework of contemporary social anthropology, and shows that ritual i...
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Cosmos and Society in Oceania
ISBN: 9781859730423 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Current anthropology uses expressions such as 'society as a whole', 'socio-cosmic relations', 'spatiotemporal extension', 'global ideology', and 'cosmomorphy' to establish that the clear-cut Western dichotomy between society and cosmos is not always to be found in the communities it studies. In fact, many elements that the West would at first undoubtedly classify as belonging either to the cosmos or to the society appear very often in Melanesia as belonging to neither one of these domains, but to a realm which combines the attributes of both. Focusing on different examples drawn from... Current anthropology uses expressions such as 'society as a whole', 'socio-cosmic relations', 'spatiotemporal extension', 'global ideology', and 'c... |
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