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The Politics of Ritual Change
Language: en
Pages: 361
Authors: John Tracy Thames, Jr.
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-27 - Publisher: BRILL

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In The Politics of Ritual Change, John Thames explores the intersection of ritual and politics in the zukru festival texts from Emar and suggests a new understa
The Politics of Ritual and Remembrance
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Grant Evans
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-01-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Communist revolutions in this century have suppressed existing ritual and symbolic structures and invented new ones. Armed with new flags, new national celebrat
Modern Passings
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Andrew Bernstein
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-31 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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What to do with the dead? In Imperial Japan, as elsewhere in the modernizing world, answering this perennial question meant relying on age-old solutions. Funera
Ritual, Politics, and Power
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: David I. Kertzer
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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Examines the history and purpose of political rituals, discusses examples from Aztec cannibal rites to presidential inauguration, and argues that the use of rit
The Politics of Ritual Kinship
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Nicholas Terpstra
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-07-19 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Between the twelfth and the eighteenth centuries Italians frequently joined "confraternities" that made them symbolic brothers and sisters to one another. These
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