Schooling as a Ritual Performance - 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 Schooling as a Ritual Performance write by Peter McLaren. This book was released on 1999. Schooling as a Ritual Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this third edition, Peter McLaren engages with some of the latest anthropological thinking and presents the reader with a powerful manifesto for critical ethnography in the 21st century.
Ritual, Performance and the Senses
Ritual, Performance and the Senses - 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, Performance and the Senses write by Jon P. Mitchell. This book was released on 2015-02-26. Ritual, Performance and the Senses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ritual has long been a central concept in anthropological theories of religious transmission. Ritual, Performance and the Senses offers a new understanding of how ritual enables religious representations – ideas, beliefs, values – to be shared among participants. Focusing on the body and the experiential nature of ritual, the book brings together insights from three distinct areas of study: cognitive/neuroanthropology, performance studies and the anthropology of the senses. Eight chapters by scholars from each of these sub-disciplines investigate different aspects of embodied religious practice, ranging from philosophical discussions of belief to explorations of the biological processes taking place in the brain itself. Case studies range from miracles and visionary activity in Catholic Malta to meditative practices in theatrical performance and include three pilgrimage sites: the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the festival of Ramlila in Ramnagar, India and the mountain shrine of the Lord of the Shiny Snow in Andean Peru. Understanding ritual allows us to understand processes at the very centre of human social life and humanity itself, making this an invaluable text for students and scholars in anthropology, cognitive science, performance studies and religious studies.
Schooling as a Ritual Performance
Schooling as a Ritual Performance - 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 Schooling as a Ritual Performance write by Peter McLaren. This book was released on 1986. Schooling as a Ritual Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Ritual, Play, and Performance
Ritual, Play, and Performance - 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, Play, and Performance write by Richard Schechner. This book was released on 1976. Ritual, Play, and Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Ritual: A Very Short Introduction
Ritual: A Very Short Introduction - 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: A Very Short Introduction write by Barry Stephenson. This book was released on 2015-01-28. Ritual: A Very Short Introduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ritual is part of what it means to be human. Like sports, music, and drama, ritual defines and enriches culture, putting those who practice it in touch with sources of value and meaning larger than themselves. Ritual is unavoidable, yet it holds a place in modern life that is decidedly ambiguous. What is ritual? What does it do? Is it useful? What are the various kinds of ritual? Is ritual tradition bound and conservative or innovative and transformational? Alongside description of a number of specific rites, this Very Short Introduction 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 behaviors have been studied as ritual while others have not. Stephenson shows how ritual is an important vehicle for group and identity formation; how it generates and transmits beliefs and values; how it can be used to exploit and oppress; and how it has served as a touchstone for thinking about cultural origins and historical change. Encompassing the breadth and depth of modern ritual studies, Barry Stephenson's Very Short Introduction also develops a narrative of ritual's place in social and cultural life. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
