This paper considers the way the outbreak of coronavirus and the subsequent lockdown has egregiously impeded the Hindu death ceremonies and mourning rituals in India. It makes a comparative analysis ...of how Hindu death rituals get renegotiated, modified and reinterpreted across two vastly different regions of India, both of which have their local customs. Whilst death rituals in India are contingent on the deceased’s caste, community, class, gender and age, the impediment to the major death rituals creates a central conundrum for all mourners. It results from the substitution of ‘sacred’ ritual guidelines with new ‘profane’ ones for the ‘disposal’ of deceased COVID-19 patients. Departure from many significant pre-liminal rites, specific transition rites, and post-liminal rites has eschatological, ritual and cultural ramifications. The inability to grieve in unison during a Shraddh ceremony denies mourners any scope to quell distressing feelings about mortality which serves as a source of consolation.
AbstractDuring the period 2018 to 2020, we followed 60 victims of crime and interviewed them at various stages of the judicial process from their first meeting with police until the conclusion of ...their cases. In this article, we analyze our interviews using Arnold Van Gennep’s and Victor W. Turner’s theoretical frameworks on rites de passage and social drama. Our analysis demonstrates how these theories are helpful in unravelling and deepening our understanding of victims’ experiences with the justice system.
In this reflection we unpack students’ first fieldwork experiences and how this parallels a rite de passage. We do so in two domains: (1) students' first fieldwork with a focus on entering the field, ...staying in the field, and researcher identity; and (2) the impact of fieldwork experiences on students’ professional skills. Two struggles are prominent: letting go of the idea of “objectivity” and learning to deal with the whimsicalities of doing fieldwork.
Contrary to most readers who have emphasized the notions of passage or liminality, I demonstrate in this study that Van Gennep’s Rites de passage is articulated around the four notions of sequences, ...margins, passages, and schema. Subsequently, the main claim of this article is to propose the idea of social kinesis—or social rhythm—as the crux of Van Gennep’s theory. Such a fresh reappraisal of Van Gennep is also an opportunity to show how Pierre Bourdieu sought for social laws and regularities in a rather deterministic fashion, and completely overlooked Van Gennep’s idea of motion. More importantly, this article is an invitation to reconsider Van Gennep’s epistemological approach as a bridge between the social and the life sciences. Indeed, Van Gennep’s so-called méthode des séquences emerges from a dialogue between the social sciences and biology on the one hand, and with cosmology on the other. Indeed, I illuminate how Van Gennep investigated the enigmas of social life and dynamics within the framework of his understanding of metabolism and regenerative processes.
L’hospitalisation des adolescentes anorexiques est fréquemment longue et vient elle-même s’articuler à une prise en charge qui a pu mobiliser plusieurs modalités de soins en amont. L’accompagnement ...de la famille dans le traitement de l’anorexie mentale à l’adolescence est un axe de travail fondamental dans le contexte de l’hospitalisation. Comme transition en fin de cette hospitalisation, la mise en place d’un repas familial thérapeutique associant familles et soignants vient s’inscrire dans un rite de passage que l’hospitalisation va incarner pour l’adolescente malade et sa famille. Cet abord rituel, une réflexion socio-anthropologique, la question du statut de l’adolescent malade, en hospitalisation et dans sa famille, la transition entre l’hôpital et la maison, la nature de la relation soignants–soignés, sont autant de thèmes permettant de comprendre l’intérêt singulier du repas familial thérapeutique.
The hospitalization of anorexic teenagers is usually long and comes, most of the time, after different kinds of care. Family support in the treatment of mental anorexia among teenagers is a fundamental focus in the context of hospitalization. As a transition at the end of the hospitalization, the implementation of a therapeutic family meal with families and caregivers become part of the rite of passage that hospitalization embodies for the suffering teenagers and for their family. The ritual approach, socio-anthropological considerations, the question of the status of the teenager, the transition between the hospitalization and the house, the nature of the relationship between care-givers and care-receivers, are so many themes that allow to understand the peculiar interest of the therapeutic family meal.
Auditions and stress Matthews, John; Ladron de Guevara, Victor
Stanislavski Studies,
07/2017, Letnik:
5, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
This is the beginning of a four-part series of interrelated articles discussing the pedagogical, ideological, and sociological functions of the audition process in drama school training. This first ...article considers the initial "first call" audition experience, foregrounding the stress-inducing aspects of the experience's design, and charting how these aspects influence auditionees. It is the premise of this article that stress cannot be understood merely as negative and, instead, may be a sign of a transformative experience that can be equated to a rite of passage. In here, we recognize that the canonical techniques of actor training associated with Stanislavski's work have resulted in a dominant paradigm which, arguably, predominates within UK drama school training. Consequently, the present article uses key segments of the first section of Stanislavski's An Actor's Work to offer a number of readings about the phase of "first contact" between auditionee and institution. Taking its cue from the analysis of significant events of the audition process for the undergraduate acting programme at the newly formed Plymouth Conservatoire - a drama school run jointly by Theatre Royal Plymouth and Plymouth University - the first article in the series investigates that dominant paradigm. Yet, aiming to offer an insight into the generic audition process in other HE institutions, all papers in this series will draw upon the authors' own experience auditioning candidates for Plymouth Conservatoire, and for other drama schools, both in the UK and abroad, so as to uncover the various pedagogic, ideological, and sociological functions of auditioning for training.
Liminality has the potential to be a leading paradigm for understanding transformation in a globalizing world. As a fundamental human experience, liminality transmits cultural practices, codes, ...rituals, and meanings in situations that fall between defined structures and have uncertain outcomes. Based on case studies of some of the most important crises in history, society, and politics, this volume explores the methodological range and applicability of the concept to a variety of concrete social and political problems.
Est proposée ici une étude analytique des Lupercales, où chacun de leurs rites est d’abord étudié séparément pour être ensuite inséré et interprété dans le cadre unificateur du rituel tout entier. ...Cette approche démontre que les Lupercales mettaient en scène et réalisaient à travers une série de rites de passage et la figure des Luperques l’irruption, à la fin de l’ancienne année romaine, du monde sauvage et de ses forces dans le monde civilisé, la cité. Cette entrée éphémère du sauvage dans le civilisé assurait la désintégration des maux de l’année écoulée et ainsi purifiait la communauté pour la nouvelle année.
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