TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stephenson, Barry
TI  - Ritual: : a very short introduction/ 
SN  - 978-0-19-994352-4
AV  - BL 600 .S84 2015
PY  - 2015///.
CY  - New York: 
PB  - Oxford University Press, 
KW  - Ritual
N1  - Alongside description of a number of specific rites, this volume explores ritual from both theoretical and historical perspectives. Barry Stephenson focuses on the places where ritual touches everyday life: in politics and power; moments of transformation in the life cycle; as performance and embodiment. He also discusses the boundaries of ritual, and how and why certain behaviours have been studied as ritual while others have not; Ritualization
Ritual and the origins of culture
Ritual and society
Ritual and transformation
Definitions, types, domains
Ritual as performance
The fortunes of ritual

ER  -