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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Main Author: Gamliʾel, Ofirah (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Ruhr-Universität Bochum [2019]
In: Entangled Religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 10
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Kerala / Religious festival / Interreligiosity / Ritual / Touch / Contact
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
AX Inter-religious relations
KBM Asia
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