Roth1995
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| Author(s) | Andrew L. Roth |
| Title | "Men Wearing Masks": Issues of Description in the Analysis of Ritual |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Ritual |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Journal | Sociological Theory |
| Volume | 13 |
| Number | 3 |
| Pages | 301-327 |
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Abstract
Since Durkheim ([1912] 1965), the concept of ritual has held a privileged posit
studies of social life because investigators recurrently have treated it as a sou insight into core issues of human sociality, such as the maintenance of social Consequently, studies of ritual have typically focused on rituals' function( specifically, whether ritual begets social integration or fragmentation. In this students of ritual have tended to ignore other equally fundamental issues, includi how actions, or courses of action, constitute a ritual, and (2) whether ritual understood as an aspect of all social action or a specific type of it. Draw Durkheim's overlooked contemporary, Van Gennep ([1908] 1960), I argue that a of ritual must describe how participants enact an occasion as ritual through dis activities and sequences of these. Analysts of ritual must attempt to ground the re of their descriptions in the participants' demonstrable orientations, an undertaki more general implications for the study of social action.
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