Ritual, History and Power

Selected Papers in Anthropology
1. Auflage 1989
ISBN: 978-1-84788-193-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 327 g

Reihe: LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology

This volume provides a collection of some of Maurice Bloch's most important work, including influential essays on power, hierarchy, death and fertility.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bloch, Maurice

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements, Foreword, 1. The past and the present in the present, 2. Symbols, song, dance and features of articulation: Is religion an extreme form of traditional authority?, 3. The disconnection between power and rank as a process: an outline of the development of kingdoms in central Madagascar, 4. Marriage amongst equals: an analysis of the marriage ceremony of the Merina of Madagascar, 5. From cognition to ideology, 6. Hierarchy and equality in Merina kinship, 7. Descent and sources of contradiction in representations of women and kinship, 8. Almost eating the ancestors, 9. The ritual of the royal bath in Madagascar: the dissolution of death, birth and fertility into authority, Notes, Bibliography, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Maurice Bloch (Author)