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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Kathryn McClymond |
ISBN: | 9780199790913 0199790914 |
OCLC Number: | 965934277 |
Description: | xi, 242 pages |
Contents: | AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction Chapter 1 Negotiating Ritual Repair: The prayascitta material in the Baudhayana Srauta SutraChapter 2 Don't Cry Over Spilled Blood: Ritual Correction in the MishnahChapter 3 Blood Libel: Ritual MisrepresentationChapter 4 Of Fists and Feathers: The Modern Olympic GamesChapter 5 When Ritual Systems Collide: The Execution of Saddam HusseinConclusion AppendixNotes Bibliography |
Series Title: | Oxford ritual studies |
Responsibility: | Kathryn T. McClymond |
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Ritual Gone Wrong: What We Learn from Ritual Disruption provides an analysis of several types of ritual error in an effort to expand our understanding of ritual, its complexity, and the relationship between ritual practice and the mundane ... Perhaps the greatest benefit of McClymond's book is the broad understanding she holds of ritual and ritual disruption. * Sarah Gane Burton, Reading Religion * Ritual Gone Wrong is a worthy entry in the Oxford Ritual Studies series and well worth adopting into a graduate course on ritual or methodology and creatively excerpting for undergraduates. * Brian Collins, Ohio University, Religious Studies Review * Read more...

