Reception of structuralism exemplified by research on rite-de-passage in Serbian ethnology and anthropology [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2006 Research on rite-de-passage marked Serbian ethnology and anthropology especially during the seventies, eighties and to some extent nineties of the 20th century.
Prodanović Ana
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En guise de conclusion : Pour une relecture de nos rituels dans la société contemporaine [PDF]
, 2006 Ce texte présente les travaux de recherche en cours de Martine Roberge sur la ritualité contemporaine. Dans le contexte actuel d’une ritualité polymorphe et « à la carte », où le besoin rituel des acteurs contemporains occasionne des modifications dans ...
Roberge, Martine
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Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1979 In this paper, the author discusses different understandings of the symbolism of liminality. According to Van Gennep’s definition, rites de passage are rites which accompany every change of place, state, social position and age.
Juha Pentikäinen
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Musica e danza in Magna Grecia e nella Sicilia greca: esempi di contesti delle performances rituali [PDF]
, 2014 In South Italy and in Sicily the discovery of groups of statuettes of female players in the sacred areas dedicated to the female deities, seems related to the female festivals and with the music and dance performed during the wedding rites.
Bellia, Angela
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Anthropological Joyce: Dubliners, Van Gennep and Liminality
ABEI Journal, 2014 This article considers, in a first part, the epistemological congruence between Joyce’s writing and the practices of the major anthropologists of his time.
Benoît Tadié
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« Des « rites de passage » avant van Gennep : les cérémonies funéraires dans les traités antiquaires et « ethnographiques » de la première modernité (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle) » [PDF]
, 2016 Rappelant le travail d’archéologie de l’ethnologie et de l’histoire comparée des religions auquel Arnold van Gennep se livre entre 1905 et 1920, ce texte montre qu’il remonte progressivement jusqu’à l’ouvrage de l’antiquaire Claude Guichard, Funérailles ...
Grosse, Christian
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The archaeology of death: from ‘social personae’ to ‘relational personhood’
Documenta Praehistorica, 2010 In order to understand rituals in the past, archaeology has long relied on theories and concepts developed in other disciplines. This paper presents concepts concerning burial practices and funeral rituals, ancestors, personhood, and individual and ...
Mihael Budja
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Initiation by White Snake and the Acquisition of Supernatural Knowledge
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2022 : This paper explores narratives about eating the flesh of a dragon or whiteserpent. It is argued that these narratives can be interpreted as examples of initiation.
Tommy Kuusela
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Book Review: The Rites of Passage Time after Time
Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 2017 Book review of Riturile de trecere în actualitate – The Rites of Passage Time after Time, edited by Adina Hulubaş and Ioana Repciuc (Iaşi: Editura Universităţii „Alexandru Ioan Cuza“, 2016. 394 p.).
Alexandru-Laurenţiu Cohal
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Communication, 2015 Through most of recorded history, in almost every culture and civilization, young men and women who reach the age of puberty have had to prove themselves in one of two contests, both loaded with sexual overtones: for the men, the trial of strength ...
Laurent Jullier
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