Models and Mirrors: Towards an Anthropology of Public Events
Models and Mirrors: Towards an Anthropology of Public Events
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模型与镜子：公共事件人类学
DOI：
10.2307/541233
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发表时间：
1991
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影响因子：
2
通讯作者：
D. Handelman
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作者：
D. Handelman
宗教是最受关注的文化实践之一，但从人类学的角度对其进行的处理却受到严重限制，其特点是存在许多狭隘的概念区别。造成这种情况的一个主要原因是实证人类学的盛行，这种人类学首先根据仪式所宣称和承担的功能来看待和总结仪式。相比之下，这本书，这已成为一个经典，调查他们作为认识论现象本身。比较公共事件-一个包括仪式和相关场合的领域-作者认为，任何公共事件必须首先通过其设计的逻辑来理解。正是一个场合的组织逻辑，在很大程度上确立了这个场合相对于它所创造和实践的世界能够做些什么。
Ritual is one of the most discussed cultural practices, yet its treatment in anthropological terms has been seriously limited, characterized by a host of narrow conceptual distinctions. One major reason for this situation has been the prevalence of positivist anthropologies that have viewed and summarized ritual occasions first and foremost in terms of their declared and assumed functions. By contrast, this book, which has become a classic, investigates them as epistemological phenomena in their own right. Comparing public events - a domain which includes ritual and related occasions - the author argues that any public event must first be comprehended through the logic of its design. It is the logic of organization of an occasion which establishes in large measure what that occasion is able to do in relation to the world within which it is created and practiced.