The Ceremonial Animal: A New Portrait of Anthropology

by WendyJames (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $101.33

  Adapting Wittgenstein's concept of the human species as 'a ceremonial animal', this book discusses the conceptual ordering of space, time, and rhythm; the mutualities of language, consciousness, ritual and religious practice; the dialectics of gender and generation; power, war, and peace; and large-scale modern social formations, such as the city.