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020 _a9781350001510
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245 0 0 _aRitual, performance and the senses /
_c[edited by] Michael Bull and Jon P. Mitchell.
260 _aLondon
_aOxford
_bBloomsbury Academic
_c2016
300 _aX, 208 s ;
_c24 cm
490 1 _aSensory studies series
520 _a"Ritual, Performance and the Senses is a unique and timely collection at the heart of which is an experiment in anthropological theory. It explores the possibility of developing a new anthropology of ritual by combining theoretical insights from three distinct domains of anthropological inquiry: cognitive/neuroanthropology, performance studies and the anthropology of the senses. These three areas of study are often considered, and indeed operate institutionally, as distinct academic sub-fields, and yet they share substantive objects of study, with their focus on experience, the body and the relationships between percept, concept and action. Bringing together scholars from each of these disciplines to consider the potential for drawing insights from each area to help to theorize ritual, this collection sheds new light on one of anthropology's most enduring research objects: by understanding ritual we understand processes at the very centre of human social life - of humanity itself. This will be invaluable reading for students and scholars of anthropology, cognitive science, performance studies and religious studies"--
650 0 _aRites and ceremonies.
650 0 _aRitual.
650 0 _aNeuroanthropology.
650 0 _aSenses and sensation.
650 0 _aAnthropology
_xMethodology.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aART / Performance.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aAnthropology
_xMethodology.
_2fast
650 7 _aNeuroanthropology.
_2fast
650 7 _aRites and ceremonies.
_2fast
650 7 _aRitual.
_2fast
650 7 _aSenses and sensation.
_2fast
700 1 _aBull, Michael,
_d1952-
_eed.
700 1 _aMitchell, Jon P.,
_eed.
830 0 _aSensory studies series.
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