The Ritual Institution of Society

Pascal Lardellier (Author)

9781786303141, Wiley

Hardback, published 16 August 2019

224 pages
24.4 x 18.8 x 2.8 cm, 0.522 kg

This book demonstrates that our daily relations, like our most recognized institutions, are based on a symbolic foundation put in place by rituals. Rituals are present at every level of society and are an expression of the sacredness of society, as much as they are an expression of the cultures and eras that communicate through them.

1. A Plurality of Anthropology, a Permanence of Symbolic Mediations.
2. The Ritual, a “Total Scientific Object”.
3. Rituals and the Media.
4. The Ritual Institution of Society.

Subject Areas: Sociology & anthropology [JH]