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- catalog abstract "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 contribution to social and religious anthropology.".
- catalog contributor b6540271.
- catalog contributor b6540272.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "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 contribution to social and religious anthropology.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 293 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Archetypal actions of ritual.".
- catalog identifier "0198277881 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Archetypal actions of ritual.".
- catalog isPartOf "Oxford studies in social and cultural anthropology".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Archetypal actions of ritual.".
- catalog subject "294.4/38 20".
- catalog subject "BL1376 .H86 1994".
- catalog subject "Jainism Rituals.".
- catalog subject "Ritual.".
- catalog subject "Worship (Jainism)".
- catalog title "The archetypal actions of ritual : a theory of ritual illustrated by the Jain rite of worship / Caroline Humphrey and James Laidlaw.".
- catalog type "text".