Visual Aspects of Ritual Behavior

The Funeral, for Instance

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2162844
AutoresPaul Hockings (0000-0002-7154-9047, Yahoo (United Kingdom), autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen23
Número3
Páginas175-185
Fecha de publicación2010-04-14
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaVisual Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0894-9468 • E-ISSN: 1545-5920
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08949461003625762
OpenAlexW1995893167
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas9

Ritual is an enactment of key roles and structural divisions, a dramatic commentary on life. Central to it is a foregrounding of two elements, the pure and the impure; to be visibly separated so that the impure can be eliminated and the pure emerge. The funeral is a universal example showing the three stages of the rite of passage: first a liminal or mixed state; then an impure chaotic state; this is finally overcome and replaced by establishing a pure, holy state of the soul and the re-establishment of a social balance. The whole event can be viewed as an object lesson for the young in how their relatives and associates act out their various social roles and thereby make the structure of the society visible

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