作者：AdamB.Seligman/RobertP.Weller/MichaelJ.Puett/BennettSimon
出版社：OxfordUniversityPress
副标题：AnEssayontheLimitsofSincerity
出版年：2008-3-24
页数：248
定价：USD21.95
装帧：Paperback
ISBN：9780195336016
内容简介
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Ritual is usually understood as pointing to some essence beyond the ritual act itself. This ambitious interdisciplinary study offers a convincing challenge to this understanding. The authors begin by seeking to explain how the conventional idea arose in the first place. They locate its origin in a post-Protestant and post-Enlightenment vision of ritual action that emphasizes rituals as merely external signs of interior states. This approach, say the authors, is part of a far larger way of relating to the self and to the world, which they label "sincerity." But ritual, they say, is the very opposite of sincerity because it consists of stylized, repetitive interactions that construct an "as if" world, a world of role, propriety, play, and even fantasy, rather than pointing to the world as it actually is. In fact, that is ritual's great contribution. Ritual modes of behavior make a shared social world possible by helping to navigate between diverse people and groups, rather than attempting to transcend and efface boundaries. After setting forth this argument, the authors go on to build on it by showing how sincerity and ritual are stand-ins for two very different ways of being in the world. Although both modes are always present to some degree, modernity has deeply privileged sincerity and authenticity. And, they say, we are now paying a heavy price for this extreme and often totalizing projection of personality in contemporary political life.
目录
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Preface 10
Contents 14
About the Authors 16
Introduction 20
1. Ritual and the Subjunctive 34
2. Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Boundaries 60
3. Ritual, Play, and Boundaries 86
4. Ritual and Sincerity 120
5. Movements of Ritual and Sincerity 148
Afterword 196
Notes 200
References 216
Index 230
评论 ······
这书读的挺早，对于我个人而言挺重要，改变了一些长久盘踞心头的想法。
竟然一直没标
so damn good…
第一章，很糟糕的符号互动论和野生的述行性proposition（这两者的结合必然把社会部落化了，使历史编年成了文化部落的共情边界历史），再加上里面刻意拼接的欧洲中心主义普遍鲁滨逊心智（虚拟式语态和其结果的共情代表了人类的独异能力和文明的普遍构造），使得所有人类学材料对象都是证成这一普遍心智的资源——比如它拿广东人的厌女丧俗来例证仪式作为现实社会的不可磨张力在嘉年华的理想秩序里被哀悼的悲剧性。作者们…
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