The interpretation of ritual: essays in honour of A. I. Richards, edited by J. S. La Fontaine.
By: La Fontaine, J. S. (Jean Sybil), 1931- La Fontaine, J. S. (Jean Sybil), 1931-.
Contributor(s): Richards, Audrey Isabel, 1899-.
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Includes bibliographies.
Introduction, by J. S. La Fontaine.--Verbal and bodily rituals of greeting and parting, by R. Firth.--Greeting, begging, and the presentation of respect, by E. Goody.--Twinship and symbolic structure, by A. Southall.--Spirit, twins, and ashes in Labwor, Northern Uganda, by R. G. Abrahams.--Belief and the problem of women, by E. Ardener.--Ritualization of women's life-crises in Bugisu, by J. S. La Fontaine.--The wedding cakes: a study of ritual change, by M. Wilson.--The significance of kava in Tongan myth and ritual, by E. Bott and E. Leach.--Psychoanalysis and ceremony, by E. Bott.--The structure of symbolism, by E. Leach.--A rejoinder to Edmund Leach, by E. Bott.--Appendix, by E. Leach.--Bibliography of the principal writings of Audrey Richards, by P. H. Gulliver. (p. [285]-289)
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