Ritual in Its Own Right: Exploring the Dynamics of Transformation - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845450515 ISBN 13: 9781845450519

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2005

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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.

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Galina Lindquist (1955-2008) was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University. She received her Ph.D. in 1998, and did fieldwork among neo-shamans in Sweden, among alternative healing practitioners and patients in Moscow, and among shamans and lamas in Tyva, Southern Siberia. She authored Conjuring Hope: Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia (2006), The Quest for the Authentic Shaman: Multiple Meanings of Shamanism on a Siberian Journey (2006), co-edited four volumes, and published numerous articles in professional journals.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1845450515
• ISBN 13: 9781845450519
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 242
• Herausgeber: Handelman Don, Lindquist Galina
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Deutschland