Ritual and Semiotics - With an Introduction by Roberta Kevelson (Hardcover)

Discussions of both semiotics and ritual have undergone a fundamental reorientation over the past several decades. Traditionally, both were east in a cognitivist vocabulary in which what is known is regarded as primitive and what is done is treated as behavior scripted by knowledge. When treated in this way, semiotics reduces to studies of the encoding and decoding of messages and ritual studies to articulations of the mythic content imbedded in ritual practices.The inadequacy of a cognitivist vocabulary for these purposes has recently been argued by researchers who mounted historical studies of both sign systems and ritual practices. These studies flesh out an alternative, non-cognitivist vocabulary. According to this approach primacy is to be accorded to process over structure, to practice over knowledge, to ritual over ideology. A non-cognitive approach has not only invigorated both ritual studies and semiotics, but has also uncovered mutual dependencies that have previously escaped attention. In many respects, sign systems alternatively emerge ritual practices and in turn transform ritual practices in fundamental ways. The essays in this volume explore some of the key aspects in which rituals and sign systems form, interact, reinforce, transform and interpret one another, especially in the context of legal institutions.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Critic of Institutions, 14
Release date:	June 1997
Introduction by:	Roberta Kevelson
Editors:	J. Ralph Lindgren • Jay Knaak
Dimensions:	230 x 160 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	226
ISBN-13:	978-0-8204-2805-5
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Semiology Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Worship > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Worship > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8204-2805-1
Barcode:	9780820428055

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