...Charles Reagan Wilson Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 The Death of Bear Bryant: Myth and Ritual in the Modern South Charles Reagan Wilson Legend has it that Paul Bear Bryant knew he would die if he quit coaching. No folklore has suggested that he predicted the immense scope...

...Richard E. Quaintance, Jr. The Power of Satire: Magic, Ritual, Art . By Elliott Robert C. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1960 . Pp. 300 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 Book Reviews 507 most distinctive artifacts of the period; viii. Frank...

...J. Lorand Matory 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 J. Lorand Matory The ‘‘Cult of Nations’’ and the Ritualization of Their Purity Candomblé is an Afro-Brazilian...

... body for a homely death. Arguably this is consistent with related mourning rituals that rely on embodied contact between the living and the dead such as the practice of wearing a lock of hair from a child or loved one. We document some contemporary practices that reconstitute the dead in keepsake form...

... as a mode of critique and mobilization against the controversial budget cuts to public education in California. UCMeP's playful yet earnest performative manipulations of the discourses and rituals of authority staged by the UC administration take the rhetoric and proposals for privatizing public higher...

... of the art world and academia alike, the aesthetico-political work of Strike Debt has included the popularization of the red square as an emblem of debt resistance, the invention of the debt burn as an anticapitalist ritual, and the launching of the Rolling Jubilee, a direct action campaign initiated...

... world. When we are concerned with the message of the medium itself, we are confronting what I am calling ritualistic language. A ritual is a significant action, an incarnation of meaning in what might otherwise be a neutral action. Wearing a flower in the lapel does not always confer dignity...

... to be exempt. Hemingway s protagonist, indeed, with his manhood shattered by technological rape ( I was blown up while we were eating cheese turns toward his lovely cool goddess because there is nothing else. Deprived of that initiative so essential to Heming­ way s concept of virility, unable to ritualize...

... is simpler poetry, but that it views experience from a more self- assured and stabilized vantage point. Ceremonial also implies that a large share of the actions which the poet imitates may, in fact, be literal ceremonies or rituals actions which are public and formal expressions of belief. Formally...

... ritualized, for­ malized structure of corporate groups to which kinship or descent is ascribed clans, moieties, lineages, castes, aristocracies, military or spiritual brotherhoods, etc. The model as it stands would be adequate for the description of very few societies, those which have little...

... the historical progress (or regression) of a once, and perhaps still, chosen people. Before examin­ ing these latter-day jeremiads, however, let me offer a general outline of the colonial jeremiad in its literary, ideological, and ritual offices in order to establish the cultural tradition which has both enraged...

... is certainly that for health. By contrast, Pueblo myths and rituals are concerned predominantly with rain and with fertility. 8 The question for us is whether a basic anxiety type can be as readily defined for a large and complex society like that of Russia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

... theorists, such as Pierre Bourdieu, Frank Knight, Max Weber, John von Neumann, Andrei Kolmogorov, and others who have resided on isolated islands of social science. Similarly, we seek to deanalytify the space of understanding by aggregating phenomena, exemplified by ritual, play, and work...

... cheek. This critique implies the extent to which its adherents regard any in- stitution that draws substantively on Christian ritual and rhetoric as essen- tially colonialist, even evidence of a regressive naiveté within the postcolo...

... dwells on this recurrent feature of comedy, the presence of tragic potentiality which Northrop Frye has labeled somewhat awkwardly the point of ritual death. Frye s point of ritual death designates the potentially tragic crisis near the end of a comedy. As he defines it: The action of comedy moves...

... contradiction, that of anti- Angels and Grass 699 ritual ritual. Foreswearing ritual, as many Pentecostals/charismatics do, does not remove ritual but rather allows it to grow stronger. In these anti- ritualized rituals lies the power of this ritual...

... of beliefs, a cult or prescribed form of ritual expression, and a code or body of (often unself­ conscious) norms to guide everyday behavior. And like any religious system, Protestantism seeks to create community. However, whether, like other religious systems, American Protestantism is also the ex­ pression...

.... These flashes come from details of straight re­ portage; the contrived re-creations of particular events which Miss Moore sometimes attempts do not as a rule come off. Rather early in his life Yeats wanted to design a ritual, based on Irish legend and his assorted occult reading, for a secret society...

... and History and particularly to the chapter “In Playland,” in which he analyzes the function of rituals and play in relation to time and claims that the revelatory characteristic of toys is to make present and tangible human temporality in itself.10 Agamben begins “In Playland” by citing Carlo...

... is “The spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets” 683 most common to global Pentecostalism are “rituals of rupture” (e.g., bap- tism in the Spirit, deliverance rituals, spiritual warfare) that function as a performative critique of the “traditional” social orders in which new Pen- tecostal...