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1st pub.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999

xxiii, 535 s. ; 23 cm

ISBN 0-521-29690-0 (brož.)

Cambridge studies in social and cultural antropology ; 110

Popsáno podle 8. dotisku z roku 2006

Obsahuje poznámky

Bibliografie na s. 499-518, rejstřík

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Contents // Foreword Keith Hart page xiv // Preface xxi // 1 Introduction 1 // The evolution of humanity 3 // Adaptation 5 // The symbol 7 // The great inversion 9 // The lie 11 // Alternative • 17 // 2 The ritual form  23 // Ritual defined 24 // The logical entailments of the ritual form 26 // Ritual and formal cause 27 // Form and substance in ritual 29 // The first feature of ritual: encoding by other than performers 32 The second feature: formality 33 // The third feature: invariance (more or less) 36 // The fourth feature: performance (ritual and other performance forms) 37 // The fifth feature: formality (vs. physical efficacy) 46 // Ritual as communication 50 // Self-referential and canonical messages 52 // Symbols, indices, and the two streams of messages 54 // Appendix 58 // x // Contents // 3 Self-referential messages 69 // On levels of meaning 70 // Variation and indexicality in the Maring ritual cycle 74 // Index, icon and number in the Maring ritual cycle 77 // Natural indices in the Maring cycle 80 // Ordinal and cardinal messages 82 // Quantification and the substantial representation of the incorporeal 84 // The digital representation of analogic processes 86 // The binary aspect of ritual occurrence 89 // Ritual occurrence and the articulation of unlike systems 97 // Ritual occurrence and buffering against disruption 101 // 4 Enactments of meaning 107 // The physical and the meaningful 108 // Speech acts 113 // The special relationship between rituals and performativeness

115 Ritual’s first fundamental office 117 // Acceptance, belief, and conformity 119 // Performativeness, metaperformativeness, and the establishment of convention 124 // Ritual and daily practice in the establishment of convention 126 The morality intrinsic to ritual’s structure 132 // Ritual and myth, and drama 134 // Ritual as the basic social act 137 // 5 Word and act, form and substance 139 // Substantiating the non-material 141 // Special and mundane objects 144 // Acts and agents 145 // Predication and metaphor 147 // Ritual words 151 // The reunion of form and substance 152 // The union of form and substance as creation 155 // Ritual, creation and the naturalization of convention 164 // 6 Time and liturgical order 169 // The dimensions of liturgical orders 170 // St. Augustine, St. Emile, time and the categories 170 // Temporal experience and public order 175 // Contents // XI // Succession, division, period and interval 177 // Temporal principles 181 // The grounds of recurrence 188 // Schedules and societies 190 // The temporal organization of activities 193 // Regularity, length and frequency 196 // Sequence and space 209 // 7 Intervals, eternity, and communitas 216 // Time out of time 216 // Tempo and consciousness 220 // Tempo, temporal regions and time out of time 222 // Frequency and bonding strength 225 // Coordination, communitas, and neurophysiology 226 // Eternity 230 // Myth and history 233 // The innumerable versus the eternal 234 // 8 Simultaneity and hierarchy

236 // The Yu Min Rumbim 237 // Language and liturgy 251 // Analysis vs. performance 253 // Ritual representations and hyperreality 257 // Mending the world 262 // The hierarchical dimension of liturgical orders 263 // 9 The idea of the sacred 277 // Sanctity defined 277 // Sanctity as a property of discourse 281 // The ground of sanctity 283 // Axioms and Ultimate Sacred Postulates 287 // Sanctity, heuristic rules, and the basic dogma 290 // Sanctity, unquestionablencss, and the truth of things 293 // Divinity, truth, and order 297 // The truths of sanctity and deutero-truth 304 // 10 Sanctification . 313 // Sanctified expressions 317 // Falsehood, alienation, sanctity and adaptation 319 // Major variations in sanctification 324 // xii Contents // Sanctity, community, and communication 326 // The sacred, the sanctified, and comparative invariance 328 // 11 Truth and order 344 // Logos 346 // Logoi 353 // 12 The numinous, the Holy, and the divine 371 // Religious experience and the numinous in William James, Rudolph Otto, and Emile Durkheim 374 // Order, disorder, and transcendence 381 // Grace 382 // Grace and art 384 // Ritual learning 388 // Meaning and meaningfulness again 391 // Belief 395 // The notion of the divine 396 // Illusion and truth 399 // The foundation of humanity 404 // 13 Religion in adaptation - 406 // Adaptation defined again 408 // Adaptation as the maintenance of truth 410 // Self-regulation 411 // Religious conceptions in human adaptation 414 // The structure

of adaptive processes 419 // The structural requirements of adaptiveness 422 // Hierarchical organization of directive, value, and sanctity 425 Sanctity, vacuity, mystery, and adaptiveness 427 // The Cybernetics of the Holy 429 // 14 The breaking of the Holy and its salvation 438 // The natural and the unnatural 438 // Sanctity and specificity 440 // Oversanctification, idolatry, and maladaptation 441 // Adaptive truth and falsity 443 // Idolatry and writing 444 // Sanctity, power, and lies of oppression 446 // Breaking the holy and diabolical lies 447 // Inversion in the order of knowledge 449 // Humanity’s fundamental contradiction Contents xiii 451 // Dissonance between law and meaning 453 // Post-modern science and natural religion 456 // Notes 462 // References 499 // Index 519