Buch, Englisch, 132 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 353 g
Reihe: Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
Buch, Englisch, 132 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 353 g
Reihe: Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
ISBN: 978-0-521-41154-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Maurice Bloch has for many years been developing an original and influential theory of ritual. In this book he synthesises a radical theory of religion. Rituals in a great many societies deny the transience of life and of human institutions. Bloch argues that they enact this denial by symbolically sacrificing the participants themselves, so allowing them to participate in the immortality of a transcendent entity. Such sacrifices are achieved through acts of symbolic violence, ranging from bodily mutilations to the killing of animals. The theme is developed with reference to rituals of many types, from a variety of ethnographic sources, and Bloch shows that even exogamous marriage rituals can be reinterpreted in the light of this thesis. He concludes by considering the indirect relation of symbolic and ritual violence to political violence.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Religionsethnologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie Kulturpsychologie, Ethnopsychologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Umwelt und Kultur, Kulturökologie
Weitere Infos & Material
Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Initiation; 3 Sacrifice; 4 Cosmogony and the State; 5 Marriage; 6 Millenarianism; 7 Myth.
