Remarks on Similarity in Ritual Classification
Affliction, Divination, and Object Animation
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 3974425 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Sónia Silva (0000-0002-5266-7742, Skidmore College, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2013 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 151-169 |
| Data de publicação | 2013-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | History of Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0018-2710 • E-ISSN: 1545-6935 |
| Editora | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/673184 |
| OpenAlex | W2312959420 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 6 |
| Referências citadas | 11 |
n her article, Silva considers the significance of similarity and polythetic classification in ritual practice and ritual theory. Inspired by Wittgenstein's concept of family resemblances and his descriptive method, and building on the work of R. Grimes, R. Needham, and, J. Z. Smith, Silva bring out the similarities among three different types of ritual in northwest Zambia, namely affliction rituals, divination rituals, and object animation rituals. She argues that affliction, divination and object animation are best perceived as thematic threads, rather than ritual types, and that those thematic threads recur in different ritual events in various combinations. In addition, further contributing to the polythetic turn in ritual classification, and ritual and religious studies more broadly, Silva argues that the tracing of similarities across different ritual categories achieves the same objective that J. Z. Smith and other scholars proclaim to attain with the disclosure of differences within one category: the undoing of essentialism. Similarity is our best corrective to the excessive distilling and purifying that is likely to occur when we take our concepts too literally and too seriously
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| Citações por ano | 0,5 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2014 - 2021 (8) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
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