Models and Mirrors

Models and MirrorsRitual is one of the most discussed cultural practices, yet its treatment in anthropological terms has been seriously limited, characterized by a host of narrow conceptual distinctions. One major reason for this situation has been the prevalence of positivist anthropologies that have viewed and summarized ritual occasions first and foremost in terms of their declared and assumed functions. By contrast, this book, which has become a classic,

eighteenth-century Korean thinker

this edition of The Lucky Star is both modern and readable

Continuing the work begun in The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature

Each chapter is authored by a unique academic-practitioner team

and scholars of Native literatures in North America

In his conclusion

Kaushik's analyses of the matrices between space-imagination

Beliefs of these two kinds are sometimes joined

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This edition of Ella M

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the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah