Ritual has been long viewed as an undisputed and indisputable part of (especially religious) tradition, performed over and over in the same ways: stable in form, meaningless, preconcieved, and with the aim of creating harmony and enabling a tradition's survival. The authors represented in this collection argue, however, that this view can be seriously challenged and that ritual's embeddedness in negotiation processes is one of its central features. In common understanding, but also in scholarly discourse, ritual has been long viewed as anundisputed and indisputable part of (especially religious) tradition, performed over and over in the same ways: stable in form, meaningless, preconcieved, and with the aim of creating harmony and enabling a tradition's survival. The authors represented in this collection argue, however, that these assumptions can be seriously challenged.Not only are rituals frequently disputed, they also constitute a field in which vital and sometimes even violent negotiations take place. Negotiations - here understood as processes of interaction during which differing positions aredebated and/or acted out - are ubiquitous in ritual contexts, either in relation to the ritual itself, or in relation to the realm beyond any given ritual performance. The authors contend that a central feature of ritual is its embeddedness in negotiation processesand that life beyond the ritual frame often is negotiated in the field of rituals. This point of view opens up fruitful new perspectives on ritual procedures, on the interactions that constitute these procedures, and on the contexts in which they are embedded. By explicitly addressing and theorizingthe relevance of negotiation in the world of ritual, the essays in this volume seek to persuade scholars and students alike to think differently and to find new starting points for more nuanced discussions. IntroductionUte Hsken and Frank NeubertPART ONE - SHARING A WORLD1. Negotiating Karma: Penance in Classical Indian Law BooksMikael Aktor2. Negotiations at Death: Assessing Gifts, Mothers and MarriagesErik de Maaker3. "The Clitoris Is Indeed Your Sweet": Negotiating Gender Roles in the Ritual Setting of the Swahili New Year's FestivalMagnus Echtler4. Ritual Negotiations in LutherlandBarry Stephenson5. Negotiating Rites in Imperial China: The Case of Northern Song Court Ritual Debates from 1034 to 1093Christian MeyerPART TWO - GETTING IT STRAIGHT6. Performing the Ancient Ones: The Body-in-practice as the Ground of Ritual NegotiationNikki Bado7. Negotiating Tantra and Veda in the Parasurama-Kalpa TraditionAnnette Wilke8. Same-Sex Weddings in Canada: Rituals of Resistance or Rituals of Conformity?Shari Lash9. The Social Element of Visionary Revelation: Public Rites as a Means of Negotiating Authenticity in Tibetan Buddhist Visionary LineagesAmy Holmes-Tagchungdarpa10. Negotiating Ritual Repair: The prayascitta Material in the Baudhayana Srauta SutraKathryn McClymondPART THREE - MEANINGS AND VALUES OF RITUAL11. Hook-Swinging in South India: Negotiating the Subaltern Space within a Colonial SocietyUlrike Schrder12. Negotiating Meaning and Enactment in a Buddhist RitualPatricia Q. Campbell13. Ordination into the Buddhist Sangha as an Initiation Ritual and as a Legal ProcedureUte Hsken and Petra Kieffer-Plz14. Negotiating the Social in the Ritual Theory of Victor Turner and Roy RappaportGrant Potts
- ISBN: 978-0-19-981229-5
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha Publicación: 17/11/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés