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I'm looking for books (fiction or nonfiction) about rituals, ideally very specific descriptions of some ritual.
e.g.
I liked Mishima's description of young couple and a tea ceremony with added breast milk.
I like prehistory and the medieval church's fight against pagan rituals in rural areas.

But I mostly find books about 'theory of rituals' or horrible trash along the lines of 'handshakes as modern rituals..'

any novels or even anthropological field work?

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>>9170175

Mo Hayder is always cool. This one is about "muti".

There's a few pages on aztec rituals in Bataille's The Accursed Share, but the general purpose is much larger (ethnological-economical-philosophical theory of the unnecessary).

>> No.9170329

Anathem by neal Stevenson. Full of religious rituals.

>> No.9170798

Maybe the book of Rites by Confucius
Confucianism is heavy on rituals

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>>9170175
Not even memeing you, son. Ritual is the center of the entire book.

>> No.9171001

>rituals
>cees nooteboom

>> No.9171202

>>9170175
Read Clifford Geertz`s studies on Balinese cock fights and the theatre state.

>> No.9172057

>>9170175
I've got this fucked up VHS called "Axe Fight", its an anthropological video from the Amazon. Two groups, related 5 generations back, have a dispute over who has access to the river, after some women harras some other women. a bunch of dudes in loincloths holding axes stand off and shout at each other, until finally they start fighting and a dude gets axed in the chest.

The video shows it twice, once without commentary, then a second time with the anthropologist explaining the conflict. Then he goes over the family tree and how the dispute was resolved by the tribal elders.

Craziest thing I own for sure. Got it from a book sale at my Uni's library. Couldn't resist a mysterious VHS labeled, AXE FIGHT in sharpie. Been meaning to upload it, but I don't have the tech to transfer VHS to digital format.

>> No.9172073

>>9172057
huh, maybe I shouldn't upload, never thought to google it before, but they're charging 150 dollars for it. There's a preview, but sadly none of the anthropological commentary which is why I was suggesting it.

http://www.der.org/films/ax-fight.html

>> No.9172075

>>9172057
There are companies that will do it for a fee

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The Golden Bough, George Frazer
Rites and Symbols of Initiation, Mircea Eliade