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Models and mirrors: towards an anthropology of public events
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ISBN: 1571811656 9781571811653 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York Berghahn Books


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Models and mirrors : towards an anthropology of public events
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ISBN: 0521350697 9780521350693 Year: 1990 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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One god, two goddesses, three studies of South Indian cosmology
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ISBN: 900425739X 9789004257399 9789004256156 9004256156 129998911X Year: 2014 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands : Brill,

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One, God, Two Goddesses presents three studies, one of Tamil myths of the god Murugan and two of goddess rituals: Gangamma in Tirupati and Paiditalli in Vizianagaram, both in Andhra Pradesh. All three essays search for lineaments of the cosmos that these deities inhabit and shape. These cosmoi are characterised by the dynamism of their incessant interior movement. Should they become still, they would die. Deities activate and regenerate such a cosmos. The dynamism of Murugan’s cosmos eliminates the chaotic. Through ritual, Gangamma regenerates her cosmos through feminising it. Through ritual, Paiditalli annually re-grows the historic little kingdom of Vizianagaram, regenerating its kingship. All three studies point to the need to rethink cosmology in South India.


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Work and play among the aged : interaction, replication and emergence in a Jerusalem setting.
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ISBN: 9023214587 Year: 1977 Publisher: Assen Van Gorcum

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Nationalism and the Israeli State : bureaucratic logic in public events.
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ISBN: 1859737803 1859737854 Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford Berg

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Ritual in its own right : exploring the dynamics of transformation
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ISBN: 1845450515 9781845450519 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books,

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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."--BOOK JACKET.


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Religion, politics, and globalization : anthropological approaches
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ISBN: 9781845457716 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

Ritual in its own right : exploring the dynamics of transformation
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ISBN: 0857458884 1845450515 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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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


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Bureaucracy and world view : studies in the logic of official interpretation.
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ISBN: 0919666159 Year: 1978 Publisher: Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland. Institute of social and economic research

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ISBN: 9780857458889 0857458884 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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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

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