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Paperback Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity Book

ISBN: 0195336011

ISBN13: 9780195336016

Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity

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This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and anthropological perspectives to describe how ritual--like play--creates "as if" worlds, rooted in the imaginative capacity of the human mind to create a subjunctive universe. The ability to cross between imagined worlds is central to the human capacity for empathy...

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