The Rousing Drum: Ritual Practice in a Japanese Community

By Scott Schnell

Ritual is too often equated with unvarying behaviour. This impression is encouraged by the ethnographic tendency towards an overly narrow time frame. This book takes a different view, adopting a historical perspective encompassing several hundred years in exploring the role of ritual.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824820649
• ISBN13: 9780824820640
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 363 Pages