The Rousing Drum: Ritual Practice in a Japanese Community

by Scott Schnell

Ritual is too often equated with unvarying or repetitive behavior. This impression is encouraged by the ethnographic tendency toward an overly narrow time frame, which highlights current relationships and conditions rather than long-term developments. The Rousing Drum takes a different view. It adopts a historical perspective encompassing several hundred years in exploring the role of ritual as an effective medium for negotiating sociopolitical and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824821416
• ISBN13: 9780824821418
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"