Does anyone have good suggestions for seminal texts for studying rituals from an anthropological perspective? Or discussions about the development of this study? I’ve read the (outdated) Van Gennep and Turner stuff.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Gerd Althoff and Geoff Koziol both do a lot w/ ritual, though they are historians not anthropologists. You might follow the footnotes in Buc’s Dangers of Ritual to see what he’s pissed off about. Garipzanov’s book I GREAT for carolingian semiotics
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Replying to @HalstedMedieval @AdmiralHip
Lady With a Mead Cup (can’t recall the author name) is good for the specific case of women giving men drinking glasses (which repeats in a lot of forms)
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Enright’s stuff is pretty out there tbh. Not well received. I’ve got Buc’s Dangers of Ritual and I’ve read some of Koziol’s stuff (his review of Buc) but his description of ritual in current anthropology is confusing and hard to understand.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Ah ok, I’m only tangentially involved in anthro so idk what the state of the field is. Good to know Enright’s a little off base
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Replying to @HalstedMedieval @AdmiralHip
Is there a specific review I should read or anything that discusses the problems w/ Enright? I would like to know more about this
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Not off hand but just look up reviews of his stuff, both that and his other book on the anointment rite and you’ll see what I mean. He gets big ideas but they are predicated on flimsy hypotheses or are just way too abstract.
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