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Author:   Ute Husken (Professor of Sanskrit, Professor of Sanskrit, University of Oslo) ,  Frank Neubert (Assistant Professor for the Study of Religions, Assistant Professor for the Study of Religions, Universitat Bern)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.40cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 15.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780199812318

ISBN 10:   0199812314
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   17 November 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction Ute Hüsken and Frank Neubert PART ONE - SHARING A WORLD 1. Negotiating Karma: Penance in Classical Indian Law Books Mikael Aktor 2. Negotiations at Death: Assessing Gifts, Mothers and Marriages Erik de Maaker 3. ""The Clitoris Is Indeed Your Sweet"": Negotiating Gender Roles in the Ritual Setting of the Swahili New Year's Festival Magnus Echtler 4. Ritual Negotiations in Lutherland Barry Stephenson 5. Negotiating Rites in Imperial China: The Case of Northern Song Court Ritual Debates from 1034 to 1093 Christian Meyer PART TWO - GETTING IT STRAIGHT 6. Performing the Ancient Ones: The Body-in-practice as the Ground of Ritual Negotiation Nikki Bado 7. Negotiating Tantra and Veda in the Parasurama-Kalpa Tradition Annette Wilke 8. Same-Sex Weddings in Canada: Rituals of Resistance or Rituals of Conformity? Shari Lash 9. The Social Element of Visionary Revelation: Public Rites as a Means of Negotiating Authenticity in Tibetan Buddhist Visionary Lineages Amy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa 10. Negotiating Ritual Repair: The prayascitta Material in the Baudhayana Srauta Sutra Kathryn McClymond PART THREE - MEANINGS AND VALUES OF RITUAL 11. Hook-Swinging in South India: Negotiating the Subaltern Space within a Colonial Society Ulrike Schröder 12. Negotiating Meaning and Enactment in a Buddhist Ritual Patricia Q. Campbell 13. Ordination into the Buddhist Sangha as an Initiation Ritual and as a Legal Procedure Ute Hüsken and Petra Kieffer-Pülz 14. Negotiating the Social in the Ritual Theory of Victor Turner and Roy Rappaport Grant Potts"

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<br> So far no works have exclusively analyzed the interrelationship between ritual and notions of negotiation although negotiation and rituals are inextricably interlinked, as this array of superbly researched and lucidly written articles shows. The book does nothing less than demonstrate that rituals are indispensable in situations of crisis and conflict. It is based on the mature debate on the performativity of ritual, and reflections on culture as process and negotiation. This scholarly yet readable book will undoubtedly become a welcome resource and reference book for students, teachers, and scholars alike. -- Axel Michaels, author of Siva in Trouble<br><p><br>

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UH: Professor of Sanskrit, University of Oslo and co-editor of the Oxford Ritual Studies series; FN: Assistant Professor of Religion, Universität Bern

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