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9780415523042: Emotions in Rituals and Performances: South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performativity
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ISBN 10: 0415523044 ISBN 13: 9780415523042
Editorial: Routledge India, 2012

Sinopsis

Challenging the idea that rituals are static and emotions irrational, the volume explores the manifold qualities of emotions in ritual practices. Focusing explicitly on the relationship between emotions and rituals, it poses two central questions. First, how and to what extent do emotions shape rituals? Second, in what way are emotions ritualized in and beyond rituals? Strong emotions are generally considered to be more spontaneous and uncontrolled, whereas ritual behaviour is regarded as planned, formalized and stereotyped, and hence less emotional. However, as the volume demonstrates, rituals often reveal strong emotions among participants, are motivated by feelings, or are intended to generate them.

The essays discuss the motivation for rituals; the healing function of emotions; the creation of new emotions through new media; the aspect of mimesis in the generation of feelings; individual, collective, and non-human emotions; the importance of trance and possession; staged emotions and emotions on stage; emotions in the context of martyrdom; emotions in Indian and Western dance traditions; emotions of love, sorrow, fear, aggression, and devotion. Furthermore, aesthetic and sensory dimensions, as well as emic concepts, of emotions in rituals are underscored as relevant in understanding social practice.

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Acerca del autor

Axel Michaels is Professor of Classical Indology, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg.

Christoph Wulf is Professor of Anthropology and Philosophy of Education, Interdisciplinary Centre for Historical Anthropology, Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) ‘Cultures of Performance’, Cluster ‘Languages of Emotion’, Freie Universität Berlin.

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Editorial
Routledge India
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0415523044
ISBN 13 
9780415523042
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
470
Editor
Michaels Axel, Wulf Christoph
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