The deep structure of symbolism in religious and ritual activities
has hitherto mostly been studied from perspectives deriving from
classical and contemporary Western thought, which values symmetry,
non-contradiction, equality of terms and the rationality of linear
discourse and classification systems have therefore come to be
defined in binary terms (right/left, male/female, black/white). In
this book, Serge Tcherkezoff presents a new perspective on the
study of ritual classification. On the basis of a detailed
ethnography of the rituals of the Nyamwezi of Tanzania, Tcherkezoff
argues for an analysis which recognised contradictions and
asymmetry within ritual systems. Following Dumont, he shows that
societies are characterised by a hierarchal structure of values, in
which each individual element has a meaning only through its
position within the whole, thereby replacing the rigid classical
structuralist dichotomy with a rich multidimensional approach.
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