WINNER OF THE CAROL R. EMBER BOOK PRIZE FOR SCIENTIFIC ANTHROPOLGY SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE From fire walking to funerals, the hidden science of the rituals that give life meaning Ritual is perhaps the oldest, and certainly the most enigmatic, thread in human culture. Apparently pointless ceremonies pervade every documented society: from handshakes to hexes, hazings to parades. Before we learned to farm, we were gathering in giant stone temples. And yet, though rituals exist in every culture and can persist nearly unchanged for centuries, their logic has remai Ritual - Dimitris Xygalatas od authora Dimitris Xygalatas a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.
Autor |
Dimitris Xygalatas |
Jazyk |
anglický |
Počet stran |
320 |
Rok vydání |
2024 |
Nakladatelství |
Profile Books |