Ritual in Its Own Right Exploring the Dynamics of Transformation

Preface

Introduction: Why Ritual in Its Own Right? How So?
Don Handelman

PART I: THEORIZING RITUAL: AGAINST REPRSENTATION, AGAINST MEANING

Chapter 1. Ritual Dynamics and Virtual Practice: Beyond Representation and Meaning
Bruce Kapferer

Chapter 2. Otherwise Than Meaning: On the Generosity of Ritual
Don Seeman

PART II: EXPERIMENTING WITH RITUAL: NATIVES HERE, NATIVES THERE

Chapter 3. The Red and the Black: A Practical Experiment for Thinking about Ritual
Michael Houseman

Chapter 4. Partial Discontinuity: The Mark of Ritual
André Iteanu

PART III: RITUAL AND EMERGENCE: HISTORICAL, PHENOMENAL

Chapter 5. Religious Weeping as Ritual in the Medieval West
Piroska Nagy

Chapter 6. Enjoying an Emerging Alternative World: Ritual in Its Own Ludic Right
André Droogers

PART IV: HEALING IN ITS OWN RIGHT: SPIRIT WORLDS

Chapter 7. Bringing the Soul Back to the Self: Soul Retrieval in Neo-shamanism
Galina Lindquist

Chapter 8. Treating the Sick with a Morality Play: The Kardecist-Spiritist Disobsession in Brazil
Sidney M. Greenfield

PART V: PHILOSOPHICALLY SPEAKING

Chapter 9. The Tacit Logic of Ritual Embodiments: Rappaport and Polanyi between Thick and Thin
Robert E. Innis

Epilogue: Toing and Froing the Social
Don Handelman

Notes on Contributors
Index