Is meaning a useful analytical category for understanding the symbolism of rituals?
Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Pedagogy - Science, Theory, Anthropology, grade: 65%, University of Cambridge, language: English, abstract: According to Turner (1970:19), ritual can be defined as formal behaviour for occasions not given over to technological routine, having reference to beliefs in mystical beings of powers. The symbol is the smallest unit of ritual. Even if one does not - as Humphrey and Laidlaw (1994) - accept Turner's definition of ritual focused on a religious context, we might still agree that rituals are build up of symbols. Symbols in this moment are ambiguous, supposedly meaningful 'metaphors' that - so the deb…
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- ISBN: 978-3-656-37760-3
- EAN: 9783656377603
- Produktnummer: 14522659
- Verlag: Grin Verlag
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 5 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 472 KB
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