Remains of Ritual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remains of Ritual write by Steven M. Friedson. This book was released on 2010-07-15. Remains of Ritual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Remains of Ritual, Steven M. Friedson’s second book on musical experience in African ritual, focuses on the Brekete/Gorovodu religion of the Ewe people. Friedson presents a multifaceted understanding of religious practice through a historical and ethnographic study of one of the dominant ritual sites on the southern coast of Ghana: a medicine shrine whose origins lie in the northern region of the country. Each chapter of this fascinating book considers a different aspect of ritual life, demonstrating throughout that none of them can be conceived of separately from their musicality—in the Brekete world, music functions as ritual and ritual as music. Dance and possession, chanted calls to prayer, animal sacrifice, the sounds and movements of wake keeping, the play of the drums all come under Friedson’s careful scrutiny, as does his own position and experience within this ritual-dominated society.
New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society
New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society write by Vera Tiesler. This book was released on 2007-02-15. New Perspectives on Human Sacrifice and Ritual Body Treatments in Ancient Maya Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines Maya sacrifice and related posthumous body manipulation. The editors bring together an international group of contributors from the area studied: archaeologists as well as anthropologists, forensic anthropologists, art historians and bioarchaeologists. This interdisciplinary approach provides a comprehensive perspective on these sites as well as the material culture and biological evidence found there
Mortal Remains
Mortal Remains - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mortal Remains write by Henry Scammell. This book was released on 1992. Mortal Remains available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An account of the organized underworld of ritualistic terror operating in a picturesque Massachusetts town discusses the work of police, forensic scientists, and anthropologists to piece together a series of crimes. Reprint.
Rational Ritual
Rational Ritual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rational Ritual write by Michael Suk-Young Chwe. This book was released on 2013-04-28. Rational Ritual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Why do beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge. Game theory shows that in order to coordinate its actions, a group of people must form "common knowledge." Each person wants to participate only if others also participate. Members must have knowledge of each other, knowledge of that knowledge, and so on. Michael Chwe applies this insight, with striking erudition, to analyze a range of rituals across history and cultures. He shows that public ceremonies are powerful not simply because they transmit meaning from a central source to each audience member but because they let audience members know what other members know. In a new afterword, Chwe delves into new applications of common knowledge, both in the real world and in experiments, and considers how generating common knowledge has become easier in the digital age." -- From the jacket.
Ritual Matters
Ritual Matters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ritual Matters write by Claudia Moser. This book was released on 2017-11-14. Ritual Matters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An international, cross-disciplinary investigation of ancient religious practices and their material remains yields fresh insights and poses new questions
