Between the Real and Ideal: Efficacy in an Ancient Mesopotamian Building Ritual
This article investigates how ritual transforms the ordinary into something extraordinary. It is the capacity of ritual to differentiate, and to be differentiated from other activities, that provides a group with a framework for seeing what they are doing as being meaningfully different than ordinar...
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Year: 2024, Volume: 71, Issue: 4, Pages: 393-427 |
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