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Paperback The Archetypal Actions of Ritual: A Theory of Ritual Illustrated by the Jain Rite of Worship Book

ISBN: 0198279477

ISBN13: 9780198279471

The Archetypal Actions of Ritual: A Theory of Ritual Illustrated by the Jain Rite of Worship

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Humphrey and Laidlaw present a new and radical general theory of ritual by drawing on an ethnographically rich account of the ritual worship of the Jains of western India. Ritual, they argue, is not a logically separate type of activity, but rather a quality that can be attributed to a wide
range of everyday activities. In exploring the issue of what is distinctive about actions which are ritualized, this book makes an ambitious and controversial...

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