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Article dans une revue Social Analysis Année : 2004

The Red and the Black.

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This article reports on the performance of an initiatory rite of the author's invention, undertaken as a practical experiment for thinking about certain recurrent features of ritual action and, specifically, of (male) initiation. In keeping with an approach which sees ritual as the enactment of special relationships, this initiation, The Red and the Black, was designed to demonstrate the importance of interactive patterning both for the structuring of ritual performance and for the participants' commitment to the relationships they ritually enact. Its meaningfulness, as well as its capacity to affect the participants' perceptions and ideas, is shown to derive less from the (minimal) explicit symbolism it employs, the beliefs it presupposes or the social functions that can be attributed to it, than from the relational entailments of the coordinate interactions it involves. Framing, simulation, secrecy, imposed suffering, symbolism, ceremonial efficacy, ritual condensation and the complex interplay of in-group and out-group perspectives, are among the issues that are illustrated and discussed
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halshs-00119422, version 1 (09-12-2006)

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Michael Houseman. The Red and the Black.: A practical Experiment for Thinking about Ritual.. Social Analysis, 2004, 48 (2), pp.75-97. ⟨halshs-00119422⟩
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