The interpretation of ritual essays in honour of A. I. Richards.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London Tavistock 1972Description: XVIII, 296 p.: fr.; tabl.; figsContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0-422-73880-8
  • 0-422-75800-0
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Contents:
Introduction, by J. S. La Fontaine.--Verbal and bodily rituals of greeting and parting, by R. Firth.--Greeting, begging, and the presentation of respect, by E. Goody.--Twinship and symbolic structure, by A. Southall.--Spirit, twins, and ashes in Labwor, Northern Uganda, by R. G. Abrahams.--Belief and the problem of women, by E. Ardener.--Ritualization of women's life-crises in Bugisu, by J. S. La Fontaine.--The wedding cakes: a study of ritual change, by M. Wilson.--The significance of kava in Tongan myth and ritual, by E. Bott and E. Leach.--Psychoanalysis and ceremony, by E. Bott.--The structure of symbolism, by E. Leach.--A rejoinder to Edmund Leach, by E. Bott.--Appendix, by E. Leach.--Bibliography of the principal writings of Audrey Richards, by P. H. Gulliver. (p. [285]-289)
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Introduction, by J. S. La Fontaine.--Verbal and bodily rituals of greeting and parting, by R. Firth.--Greeting, begging, and the presentation of respect, by E. Goody.--Twinship and symbolic structure, by A. Southall.--Spirit, twins, and ashes in Labwor, Northern Uganda, by R. G. Abrahams.--Belief and the problem of women, by E. Ardener.--Ritualization of women's life-crises in Bugisu, by J. S. La Fontaine.--The wedding cakes: a study of ritual change, by M. Wilson.--The significance of kava in Tongan myth and ritual, by E. Bott and E. Leach.--Psychoanalysis and ceremony, by E. Bott.--The structure of symbolism, by E. Leach.--A rejoinder to Edmund Leach, by E. Bott.--Appendix, by E. Leach.--Bibliography of the principal writings of Audrey Richards, by P. H. Gulliver. (p. [285]-289)