Ritual, History and Power : Selected Papers in Anthropology

Name: Ritual, History and Power:Selected Papers in Anthropology
ISBN: 9781003136361

doi:10.4324/9781003136361

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ABSTRACT

This volume provides a collection of some of Maurice Bloch's most important work, including influential essays on power, hierarchy, death and fertility.

Ritual, History and Power

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|18 pages

The past and the present in the present 1

chapter 2|27 pages

Symbols, song, dance and features of articulation: Is religion an extreme form of traditional authority? 1

chapter 3|43 pages

The disconnection between power and rank as a process: an outline of the development of kingdoms in central Madagascar 1

chapter 4|17 pages

Marriage amongst equals: an analysis of the marriage ceremony of the Merina of Madagascar 1

chapter 5|31 pages

From cognition to ideology

chapter 6|15 pages

Hierarchy and equality in Merina kinship

chapter 7*|14 pages

Descent and sources of contradiction in representations of women and kinship 1

chapter 8|21 pages

Almost eating the ancestors 1

chapter 9|25 pages

The ritual of the royal bath in Madagascar: the dissolution of death, birth and fertility into authority 1