Otherwise than meaning: On the generosity of ritual

Social Analysis

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 55-71

  Seeman, Don ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Alterity; Experience; Geertz; Hasidism; Judaism; Levinas; Medical anthropology; Ritual theory; Shapira; Suffering; Weber

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247661317     PISSN: 0155977X     EISSN: 15585727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3167/015597704782352500     Document Type: Article

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