The Archetypal Actions of Ritual: A Theory of Ritual Illustrated by the Jain Rite of Worship

by James Laidlaw and Caroline Humphrey

Book Overview

Humphrey and Laidlaw present a new and radical general theory of ritual by drawing on an ethnographically rich account of the ritual worship of the Jains of western India. Ritual, they argue, is not a logically separate type of activity, but rather a quality that can be attributed to a wide
range of everyday activities. In exploring the issue of what is distinctive about actions which are ritualized, this book makes an ambitious and controversial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198279477
• ISBN13: 9780198279471
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"