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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Ritualization
Seeing ritual
Ritualization theory
Human ritualization
Warfare
Merits and limits
Chapter 2: Ritual and the origins of culture
Shamanic rites
Ritual architecture
Myth and ritual school
Sacrifice
Scholarly theories, scholarly fantasies
Chapter 3: Ritual and society
Emile Durkheim_ solidarity and effervescence
Ritual, politics, and power
Ritual as negotiation
Chapter 4: Ritual and transformation
Initiation
Ritual criticism
Magic
Unsettled issues
Chapter 5: Definitions, types, domains
Family resemblances
Ritualization, rite, ritual
Types and domains
Liturgy, or religious ritual
Chapter 6: Ritual as performance
Zen kōans
Embodiment and inscription
Levi-Strauss’s shaman
Chapter 7: The fortunes of ritual
Ritualism and primitivism
Loss and longing
Ritual and public life
References
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Further Reading
Index
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