The Syntactic Roles of Touch in Shared Festivals in Kerala: Towards an Analysis of Ritual Categories
The following discussion of touch as a syntactic-semantic unit in ritual structures is based on an analogy of ritual and language postulating a 'deep structure' or a 'universal grammar' for rituals as presented by Frits Staal, Axel Michaels, and Naphtali Meshel. Following E. Thom...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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CERES / KHK Bochum
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer |
| Online Access: | https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/8436 |