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Models and Mirrors: Towards an Anthropology of Public Events

Poetics TodayPublished 1 January 1993
Yoram S. Carmeli, Don Handelman
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Abstract

In this comparative study of public events, Professor Handelman investigates rituals as epistemological phenomena in their own right. He argues that any public event - including both ritual and related occasions - must first be comprehended through the logic of its design.

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