Full Description
This book provides a ground-breaking, interaction-based framework of rituals, drawing on multiple research disciplines. It examines ritual as a relational action constructed in interaction through pre-existing patterns and captures the features of ritual phenomena by analysing interactants' behaviour in culturally and socially diverse contexts.
Contents
1. Introduction 2. Defining Ritual from a Relational Perspective 3. In-group Ritual in Operation: Two Case Studies 4. Relational Ritual Typology 5. Recognition, Affectivity and Emotivity 6. Destructive Relational Rituals 7. Conclusion
