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Corporeality as a Key to the Assessment of the Dynamics of Ritualization

Authors

  • Martin Pehal
  • Olga Cieslarová

Abstract

In our article we shall inquire into the special quality which has the ability to transform non-ritual action into ritual action – ritualization. Borrowing concepts and terminology from the complex theory of James Laidlaw and Caroline Humphrey, we are going to demonstrate that non-ritual action – once transformed by ritualization – becomes ‘deliberatel non-intentional’.

Published

2011-12-05

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