Models and Mirrors

Name: Models and Mirrors
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Towards an Anthropology of Public Events

By: Don Handelman

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Paperback | 1 October 1998

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Ritual is one of the most discussed cultural practices, yet its treatment in anthropological terms has been seriously limited, characterized by a host of narrow conceptual distinctions. One major reason for this situation has been the prevalence of positivist anthropologies that have viewed and summarized ritual occasions first and foremost in terms of their declared and assumed functions. By contrast, this book, which has become a classic, investigates them as epistemological phenomena in their own right. Comparing public events - a domain which includes ritual and related occasions - the author argues that any public event must first be comprehended through the logic of its design. It is the logic of organization of an occasion which establishes in large measure what that occasion is able to do in relation to the world within which it is created and practiced.

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"Handelman's work expands our understanding of symbolic practice. [It is] particularly profound for the analysis of ritual but those in other fields inside and outside anthropology will discover a wealth of insight and fruit for the nourishment of their own ideas and research." · Semiotica

"This set of well-linked essays is the work of a mature scholar concerned with devising a theory and method for the cross-cultural analysis of public events of what some would call rituals.Models and Mirrors is dense without being obscure, reflective without being self-obsessed, up todate - containing sophisticated discussions of play, performance, uncertainty, and hegemony - without being trendy ... intellectually invigorating." · Journal of Anthropological Research

"... stands out as a major achievement and an important contributions to the study of the theory and practice of rituals ..." · Journal of American Folklore

"... Handelman has here succeeded in suggesting an empirically reflexive, judiciously postmodern idiom of analysis that resuscitates concepts of system without imposing authoritative closure." · American Ethnologist

"Astounding comparative breadth. Berghahn Books is to be commended for reissuing at an affordable price the most challenging theoretical work on ritual written in the late twentieth century." · Religious Studies Review

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Preface to Second Edition: Theorizing Through Models and Mirrors	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. liii
Introduction	p. 1
Premises and Prepossessions	p. 3
Models and Mirrors	p. 22
Precariousness in Play	p. 63
Proto-Events	p. 83
Intersections	p. 85
The Donkey Game	p. 86
Intersections	p. 102
Banana Time	p. 104
Public Events	p. 113
Intersections	p. 115
The Palio of Siena	p. 116
Intersections	p. 136
Christmas Mumming In Newfoundland	p. 138
Intersections	p. 160
Holiday Celebrations in Israeli Kindergartens	p. 162
Intersections	p. 190
State Ceremonies of Israel --Remembrance Day and Independence Day	p. 191
Intersections	p. 234
Symbolic Types--Clowns	p. 236
Epilogue: Towards Media Events	p. 266
Notes	p. 270
Bibliography	p. 301
Index	p. 323
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