Thick Description of a Visit Home
In Tribute to Clifford Geertz
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19004437 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alison E Rautman (Michigan State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 85-94 |
| Publication date | 2008-10-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology & Humanism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1548-1409 • E-ISSN: 1559-9167 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1548-1409.2008.00007.x |
| OpenAlex | W2082480861 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
A journey home after my parents' deaths combined elements of pilgrimage, mortuary ritual, and ritual of reincorporation. This exercise in thick description ( Clifford Geertz 1973 ) explores the meaning of my tragicomic adventure using Renato Rosaldo's (1989 ) ideas of ritual as public markers along private paths. When my personal mourning ritual could not fit into any available cultural category, I stumbled, disoriented, into a carnival world of boundary transgression, status inversion, and farce
Adventure · Ancient history · Art · Art history · Heterotopia (medicine) · Humanities · Pilgrimage · Sociology · Tribute · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · History · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |