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Ritanalyses 1
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ISBN: 2905614145 9782905614148 Year: 1987 Publisher: s. l. Jérôme Millon


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The problem of ritual efficacy
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ISBN: 1282402870 9786612402876 0199742367 9780199742363 9780195394405 0195394402 9780195394412 0195394410 9781282402874 6612402873 0190453168 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York, New York : Oxford University Press,

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How do rituals work? Although this is one of the first questions that people everywhere ask about rituals, little has been written explicitly on the topic. In The Problem of Ritual Efficacy, nine scholars address this issue, ranging across the fields of history, anthropology, medicine, and biblical studies. For ""modern"" people, the very notion of ritual efficacy is suspicious because rituals are widely thought of as merely symbolic or expressive, so that - by definition - they cannot be efficacious. Nevertheless people in many cultures assume that rituals do indeed ""work,"" and when we take

Secular ritual.
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ISBN: 9023214579 Year: 1977 Publisher: Assen Van Gorcum

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Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Ceremonial Behavior. --- 394 --- 262 --- 291.37 --- 39:796 --- Associations, institutions, etc --- -#SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:316.331H620 --- Institutions, associations, etc. --- Networks (Associations, institutions, etc.) --- Organizations --- Voluntary associations --- Voluntary organizations --- Social groups --- Voluntarism --- Rituals --- Behavior, Ceremonial --- Behaviors, Ceremonial --- Ceremonial Behaviors --- Appetitive Behavior --- Ritueel. Openbaar leven. Maatschappelijk leven. Banketten. Volksfeesten. Carnaval. Spelen. Dansen. Optochten. Jaarmarkt. Kermissen. Ruiterfeesten. --- Kerkelijk bestuur. Kerkelijke organisatie. Kerkelijke instellingen --- Processies. Symbolen. Riten. Emblemen --- Culturele antropologie van sport en spel. Volkssporten --- Congresses --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Secularisatie: onderzoek --- Conferences - Meetings --- 39:796 Culturele antropologie van sport en spel. Volkssporten --- 291.37 Godsdienstige ceremonieën. Religieuze symboliek. Mysteries. Inwijding --- 291.37 Processies. Symbolen. Riten. Emblemen --- Godsdienstige ceremonieën. Religieuze symboliek. Mysteries. Inwijding --- 262 Kerkelijk bestuur. Kerkelijke organisatie. Kerkelijke instellingen --- 394 Ritueel. Openbaar leven. Maatschappelijk leven. Banketten. Volksfeesten. Carnaval. Spelen. Dansen. Optochten. Jaarmarkt. Kermissen. Ruiterfeesten. --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ceremonial Behavior --- #SBIB:39A10 --- Ritueel. Openbaar leven. Maatschappelijk leven. Banketten. Volksfeesten. Carnaval. Spelen. Dansen. Optochten. Jaarmarkt. Kermissen. Ruiterfeesten --- 394 Ritueel. Openbaar leven. Maatschappelijk leven. Banketten. Volksfeesten. Carnaval. Spelen. Dansen. Optochten. Jaarmarkt. Kermissen. Ruiterfeesten --- 394 Public life. Pageantry. Social life. Life of the people --- Public life. Pageantry. Social life. Life of the people

The language of secrecy : symbols and metaphors in Poro ritual.
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ISBN: 0813509696 Year: 1984 Publisher: New Brunswick Rutgers university press

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#SBIB:39A10 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- 316.754 --- Ceremonial Behavior. --- Culture. --- Symbolism. --- Kpelle (African people) --- -Secrecy --- Concealment --- Privacy --- Hiding places --- Symbolism (Psychology) --- Symbolisms --- Symbolisms (Psychology) --- Beliefs --- Cultural Background --- Customs --- Background, Cultural --- Backgrounds, Cultural --- Belief --- Cultural Backgrounds --- Cultures --- Custom --- Rituals --- Behavior, Ceremonial --- Behaviors, Ceremonial --- Ceremonial Behaviors --- Appetitive Behavior --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Sociale normen --(sociologie) --- Rites and ceremonies --- Poro (Society) --- Poro --- Società Poro --- Poro (Secret order) --- Liberia --- Social life and customs. --- Secrecy. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- 316.754 Sociale normen --(sociologie) --- Secrecy --- Ceremonial Behavior --- Culture --- Symbolism --- Cultural Relativism --- Cultural Relativisms --- Relativism, Cultural --- Relativisms, Cultural --- Dēmokratia tēs Liverias --- Gweriniaeth Liberia --- IGNU (Liberia) --- Interim Government of National Unity (Liberia) --- Komara Lîberyayê --- Labiriyaa --- Laibeer --- Libearia --- Libeeria --- Libeeria Vabariik --- Libeïa --- Libéir --- Libèiria --- Liberi --- Libériai Köztársaság --- Liberiako Errepublika --- Liberië --- Liberii︠a︡ --- Liberii︠a︡ respublika --- Liberija --- Libērijas Republika --- Liberijos Respublika --- Liberio --- Liberiya --- Liberiya Respublikası --- Liberja --- Liberya --- Liberyah --- Liberyi︠a︡ --- Libiliya --- Libirya --- Liveria --- Lýðveldið Líbería --- Pobblaght ny Laibeer --- Poblachd Libèiria --- Reppubliek Liberië --- Repubblica di Liberia --- Republic of Liberia --- Republica de Liberia --- Republiek Liberia --- Republiek van Liberië --- Republik Liberia --- Republika Liberii︠a︡ --- Republika Liberija --- Republiḳat Liberyah --- Republíki ya Liberia --- République du Liberia --- Riberia --- Riberia Kyōwakoku --- Tlācatlahtohcāyōtl Liberia --- Δημοκρατια της Λιβεριας --- Λιβερία --- Република Либерия --- Република Либерија --- Либери --- Либерия --- Либерия республика --- Либерија --- Ліберыя --- רפובליקת ליבריה --- ליבריה --- リベリア --- リベリア共和国 --- 利比里亚


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Of life and health : the language of art and religion in an African medical system
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ISBN: 9781789201017 1789201012 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York Berghahn Books

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An anthropological study of the health system of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, Of Life and Health develops a cultural and epistemological lexicon of Dagara life by examining its religious, ritual, and artistic expressions. Consisting of ethnographic descriptions and analyses of six Dagara cultic institutions, each of which deals with different aspects of sustaining and transmitting life, the volume gives a holistic account of the Dagara knowledge system. (Provided by publisher)

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Dagaaba (African people) --- Healing --- Ritual --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Social life and customs. --- Religious aspects --- Medicine, African Traditional --- Spiritual Therapies --- Ceremonial Behavior --- Religion and Medicine --- Social life and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ghana. --- Burkina Faso. --- Burkina Fasso --- Upper Volta --- Republic of Ghana --- Gold Coast --- Medicine and Religion --- Parish Nursing --- Rituals --- Behavior, Ceremonial --- Behaviors, Ceremonial --- Ceremonial Behaviors --- Appetitive Behavior --- Exorcism --- Therapies, Spiritual --- Spiritual Healing --- Exorcisms --- Healing, Spiritual --- Healings, Spiritual --- Spiritual Healings --- Occultism --- Parapsychology --- Mind-Body Therapies --- Spirituality --- African Medicine --- African Traditional Medicine --- Medicine, African --- Medicine, Traditional African --- Traditional African Medicine --- African Medicine, Traditional --- African Witch Doctor --- Traditional Medicine, African --- Witch Doctor, African --- African Witch Doctors --- Doctor, African Witch --- Doctors, African Witch --- Witch Doctors, African --- Cult --- Cultus --- Liturgies --- Public worship --- Symbolism --- Worship --- Ritualism --- Curing (Medicine) --- Therapeutics --- Dagara (African people) --- Dagari (African people) --- Dagari (African tribe) --- Dagati (African people) --- Lodagaa (African people) --- Ethnology --- #SBIB:39A9 --- #SBIB:39A10 --- Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Religiosity Coping --- Spiritual Coping --- Coping, Religiosity --- Coping, Spiritual --- Religiosity Copings --- Traditional Medicine Practitioners

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