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Title
The Interactive Basis of Ritual Effectiveness in a Male Initiation Rite |
Full text
http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/44/54/14/PDF/The_interactive_basis_of_ritual_effectiveness.pdf |
Date
1993 |
Author(s)
Houseman, Michael |
Abstract
An analysis of the male initiation rite So among the Beti of Cameroon is used to show how the effectiveness of this ritual derives essentially from the patterns that underlie the interactions between the rite's participating parties: the initiators, the novices and the uninitiated (women and children). |
Subject(s)
[SHS:ANTHRO_SE] Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology; Initiation; Ritual; Interaction; Relational form; Beti; So; Cameroon |
Language
EN |
Publisher
HAL - CCSD |
Type of publication
text |
Identifier
HAL:halshs-00445414, version 1; HAL:http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00445414/en/ |
Repository
France - Hyper Article en Ligne (HAL)
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