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Author:   Alexander Henn ,  Klaus-Peter Koepping
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9783631573938

ISBN 10:   3631573936
Pages:   340
Publication Date:   15 January 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Alexander Henn: Introduction. Beyond Norm, Text and Dialectics - Ritual as Social Praxis - Ulricke Stohrer: Keeping Stability in an Unstable World: Ritual, Performance and Identity in Yemen - Alito Siqueira: Performing Myths of Location: The Return of the Goddess of Saltura (India) - Mani Shekhar Singh: Tradition, Pictorial Convention, Personal Trait: Poetics of Composition in Maithil Painting (India) - Michael Rudolph: Improvisation, Contingency, and Ambiguity: The Efficacy of Contemporary Ritual Performances of Taiwan's Aborigines - Terence Turner: Ritualized Politics and Politicized Ritual Among Ourselves and the Kayapo of Brazil - Monika Salzbrunn: Marginal Politics: Carnivals as a Mode of Expression in Migration (France/Germany) - Akira Nishimura: Symbiosis or Segregation? Dealing With the Foreign in Nagasaki - Betina Schmidt: Polyphonic Bricolage: Caribbean Religious Cultures in New York City - Alexander Henn: Ritual, History and Identity in Goa (India) - Beatrix Hauser: How to Fast for a Good Husband? Reflections on Ritual Imitation and Embodiment in Orissa (India) - Kirsten Endres: Serving the Shadows: Performative Aspects of Vietnamese Mediumship - Irit Averbuch: Embodying the Sacred in Kagura Performances: On the Non-Verbal Language of Divine Presence in Japanese Ritual Dance-Dramas - Klaus-Peter Koepping: Body - Text - Mask: Competing Ritual Strategies and the Fracturing of Collective Identity in Modern Japan - Vincent Crapanzano: On the Preclusive Dimension of Ritual Representation.

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The Editors: Alexander Henn is Associate Professor at the Department for Religious Studies and the School of Global Studies at Arizona State University in Phoenix (USA). Klaus-Peter Koepping is Emeritus Professor of the University Heidelberg and currently visiting professor at Goldsmith College, Center for Cultural Studies, at the University of London.

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