An illuminating look at the transformative role that rituals play in our political lives The Politics of Ritual is a ma
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In the most comprehensive study of political ritual yet written, David I. Kertzer explains why ritual has been and will
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"A welcome addition. They argue that rituals of reproduction in preindustrial societies are essentially political.
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This examination of death rituals in early Japan finds in the practice of double burial a key to understanding the Taika
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The Archaeology of Ritual and Magic is an archaeological study of the material evidence for ritual and magical practices
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From the mid-fifteenth century to the early seventeenth, German Jews were persecuted and tried for the alleged ritual mu
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