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Title: Understanding Rituals
Author : Daniel de Coppet
Release Date : January 01, 2002
Genre: Anthropology,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,
Pages : * pages
Size : 565 KB

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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.