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Ritual and its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity
Ritual and its Consequences An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity
Author: Adam B Seligman, Robert P Weller, Michael J Puett, Bennett Simon
This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and anthropological perspectives to describe how ritual -- like play -- creates "as if" worlds, rooted in the imaginative capacity of the human mind to create ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195336016
ISBN-10: 0195336011
Publication Date: 3/24/2008
Pages: 248
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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