The Art of Decay and Eternity

Ritualization in Aipan Practice

Bibliographic Data

ID2162846
AuthorsGudrun Frommherz (0000-0002-5405-5440, Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume23
Issue3
Pages200-220
Publication date2010-04-14
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueVisual Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0894-9468 • E-ISSN: 1545-5920
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08949461003626844
OpenAlexW2015509278
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited15

This article investigates a class of social practices [Bourdieu 1977] as they take place somewhere between everyday actions and strictly defined rituals on the scale of semiotic codification. Juxtaposing methodologies of multimodal interaction analysis [Norris 2004] and visual ethnography, the author discusses a spiritualization of cultural tools [Wertsch 1998] and consequently a ritualization in social practice involving the Indian Aipan art. Ritualization of social actions, the main argument goes, is driven by a deliberate focus of social actors on the profane rather than on the sacred [Eliade 1959(1957) Eliade , Mircea 1959(1957) The Sacred and the Profane . New York : Harcourt . [Google Scholar]]

Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Class (philosophy · Epistemology · Eternity · Ethnography · Ritualization · Semiotics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Philosophy · Public Spaces through Art · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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