Add to ORKGAn exploration into the idea that festivals and rituals enable change. Durkheim's view of society is rather static and monolithic, but societies change and develop all the time, or rather, the elements that make them do. How do societies accommodate all this change and yet persist in a recognisably similar form? The answer is that they often incorporate rites of passage, ritual mechanisms that allow individuals to move from one stage of life to another without threatening the stability of the whole
Abstract In various societies, ritual manifest in almost all stages of human life. It starts from th...
In Pierre Bourdieu’s theory, a holiday is a ritual understood as a particular social structure. It h...
Governments fail when trying to create a celebration without deep historical roots and the society’s...
This paper is focused on the anthropological concept of ritual, starting from Emile Durkheim's appro...
At every transition in life, the stress and trauma that accompany it is enough to cripple and preven...
Rituals accompany people from their birth till death and play very important roles in their lives. T...
Contemporary ritual studies are defined by the interpretation of ritual. Using an approach in conver...
Abstract With both the terms “rite of passage” and “ritual” facing difficulties as analytic concepts...
Rites of passage, being significant markers in a human life time, have, due to processes of seculari...
This Article offers a theory of ritual as social control. It argues that an important function of ri...
This article deals with ceremonial behaviors related to changes of status in individuals’ life cours...
In 1909, Arnold Van Gennep published 7he Rites of Passage. All the rites concerning the inclusion or...
The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate the applicability of van Gennep’s (1960) theory o...
A shifting of reality, rites and rhythm, cultural continuity : an approach to new beliefs through t...
This study will focus on the change process in relation to understanding personal and organizational...
Abstract In various societies, ritual manifest in almost all stages of human life. It starts from th...
In Pierre Bourdieu’s theory, a holiday is a ritual understood as a particular social structure. It h...
Governments fail when trying to create a celebration without deep historical roots and the society’s...
This paper is focused on the anthropological concept of ritual, starting from Emile Durkheim's appro...
At every transition in life, the stress and trauma that accompany it is enough to cripple and preven...
Rituals accompany people from their birth till death and play very important roles in their lives. T...
Contemporary ritual studies are defined by the interpretation of ritual. Using an approach in conver...
Abstract With both the terms “rite of passage” and “ritual” facing difficulties as analytic concepts...
Rites of passage, being significant markers in a human life time, have, due to processes of seculari...
This Article offers a theory of ritual as social control. It argues that an important function of ri...
This article deals with ceremonial behaviors related to changes of status in individuals’ life cours...
In 1909, Arnold Van Gennep published 7he Rites of Passage. All the rites concerning the inclusion or...
The purpose of this presentation is to demonstrate the applicability of van Gennep’s (1960) theory o...
A shifting of reality, rites and rhythm, cultural continuity : an approach to new beliefs through t...
This study will focus on the change process in relation to understanding personal and organizational...
Abstract In various societies, ritual manifest in almost all stages of human life. It starts from th...
In Pierre Bourdieu’s theory, a holiday is a ritual understood as a particular social structure. It h...
Governments fail when trying to create a celebration without deep historical roots and the society’s...