Anthropology of Ritual
Osnova sekce
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Submit an annotation on two short texts (ca. 500 words for both texts in total):
Miner, Horace. 1956. Body Ritual Among Nacirema. In: Spradley, J. P. - McCurdy, D. (eds.) 2012. Conformity and conflict: readings in cultural anthropology. 14th ed. Pearson. P. 287 – 291.
Gmelch, George. Baseball Magic. In: Spradley, J. P. - McCurdy, D. (eds.) 2012. Conformity and conflict: readings in cultural anthropology. 14th ed., p. 266 – 274.
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Submit an annotation (500 - 600 words) on:
Dubisch, Jill. Run for the Wall: An American Pilgrimage. In: Spradley, J. P. - McCurdy, D. (eds.) 2012. Conformity and conflict: readings in cultural anthropology. 14th ed., p. 275 - 286.
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Please submit 500 words annotation on the ch. 14 Religion and Ritual, p. 209 - 226.
The text should serve us as a broader theoretical grounding for the case studies which would follow from the next week onwards.
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Please submit an annotation (500 words) on:
Turner, Victor. 1969. Liminality and Communitas. In: Turner, V. The Ritual Process. Structure and Anti-Structure. Ithaca: Cornell University Press., p. 94-130.
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Submit an annotation from:
Seidlová, Veronika. 2013 „Singing One’s Way out of Marginality? The Musical-Religious Activities of a Female Hindu Ascetic in Rishikesh, India” in Jurková, Z., Stellmacher, M., Skořepová, Z., Kuhnová, K., Seidlová, V. 2013. Tóny z okrajů: Hudba a marginalita/Sounds from the Margins. Praha: Kher, pp. 130-144.
E-book,also available free from: http://www.kher.cz/eknihy_nase.php
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Submit an annotation on:
Barry Stephenson. Ritual Negotiations in Lutherland. In: Husken, Ute – Neubert, Frank. 2011. Negotiating Rites. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. p. 81 – 95.
Read the full article including Endnotes.
1) Introduce shortly the performances which Stephenson describes ethnographically.
Focus on how Stephenson interprets his data with:
1) efficacy - entertainment dyad
2) the concept of social drama
3) the concepts of Festivity, Carnival and Mimetic Play
4) What is author's conclusion?
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10th week (5/5/25): Ethnographic case study of a production of possession in a multi-national corporation in Malaysia
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Ong, Aihwa. The Production of Possession: Spirits and the Multinational Corporation in Malaysia. American Ethnologist, Vol. 15, No. 1, Medical Anthropology (Feb., 1988), pp. 28-42. (This text is also an item of the CESS reading list.)
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11th week (12/5/25): Select one text (ethnographic case study) from a variety of texts offered for this week, read and present it in a 10 min PPT presentation in the class.
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IDEALLY one of the chapters from the book Negotiating Rites (uploaded above in the task of annotation of Barry Stephenson). Recommended chapters to choose from: 2, 3, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13.
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Requirements of the course: Minimum 500 words annotations of 5 assigned mandatory readings (except from the 1st week) uploaded in the moodle course page AND a presentation of a selected ethnographic case of a ritual performance interpreted with the help of theoretical concepts from mandatory readings.
Please choose one text (ethnographic case) from the readings offered in the 11th week onwards. Introduce the author and the contents of the text and try to link the text to other texts read in the course (theoretical concepts, ethnographic cases etc.). You are welcome to add your opinions, experiences or reflections. Just make sure that it is clear who is saying what and where. Use paraphrases and direct quotations with references to the exact page of the original, include the list of references. You can also find another academic article/chapter which would be an ethnography of a ritual of your interest, but I need to approve of it. A third option is that you try to ethnographically describe an event which you have yourself attended (include photos). The event must be framed with a theoretical concept(s) from the literature provided in the course, i.e. you would add interpretations of the observed.
Powerpoint presentation details: 7-10 slides, approx. 10 min. Your presentation should consist of a description of an ethnographic case (approx. 2-3 pages) of an event which can be interpreted as a ritual performance. Put references in the text and include the final list of references at the end. Please upload the ppt presentation in the Moodle by 11/5 and 18/5/ 2025 respectively!
Thank you very much for attending the course and hope to see you next semester!
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