Rituals In Its Own Right—Exploring The Dynamics Of Transformation

Anthropologists, sociologists, and scholars of religion and philosophy ponder whether ritual forms have constituting and self-constituting structural, processual, and transformational features that may reveal how these rituals are organized in their own right. They each consider a particular ritual form apart from its cultural and social contexts to try to identify such features. The anthology was published as Social Analysis v.48, no.2 (summer 2004). Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Galina Lindquist (1955-2008) was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University. She received her Ph.D. in 1998, and did fieldwork among neo-shamans in Sweden, among alternative healing practitioners and patients in Moscow, and among shamans and lamas in Tyva, Southern Siberia. She authored Conjuring Hope: Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia (2006), The Quest for the Authentic Shaman: Multiple Meanings of Shamanism on a Siberian Journey (2006), co-edited four volumes, and published numerous articles in professional journals.