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Italie --- Political customs and rites --- Holidays

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Monarchy --- Political customs and rites --- Netherlands.

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Rituals combining healing with spirit possession and court-like proceedings are found around the world and throughout history. For example, a person suffers from an illness that cannot be cured, and in order to be healed he performs a ritual involving prosecution and defense, a judge and witnesses. Divine beings give evidence through human oracles, spirits possess their human victims and are exorcized, and local gods intervene to provide healing and justice. Such practices seem to be the very antithesis of modernity and many modern, secular states have systematically attempted to eliminate them. Why are such rituals largely absent from modern societies, and what happens to them when the state attempts to expunge them from their health and justice systems, or even to criminalize them? Despite the prevalence of rituals involving some or all of these elements, The Law of Possession represents the first attempt to compare and analyze them systematically. The volume brings together historical and contemporary case studies from East Asia, South Asia, and Africa, and argues that, despite consistent attempts by states to discourage, eliminate, and criminalize them, such rituals persist and even thrive because they meet widespread human needs.

Political customs and rites. --- Spirit possession. --- Justice, Administration of.

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Nación y liberalismo marcaron el desembarco de España en el mundo contemporáneo transformando las instituciones y cambiando las relaciones de poder. Desde entonces, la creación de símbolos y la disputa por un espacio político diferenciado fue mucho más evidente que nunca. Y esto se manifestó, incluso, en el umbral de la vida y la muerte. Desde la guerra de la Independencia hasta la actualidad, los funerales políticos se han convertido en un instrumento de comunicación política, una forma de transmitir idearios y valores, de construir identidad de grupo o de prolongar la herencia de los desaparecidos. El presente libro muestra cómo se han utilizado y desarrollado estas posibilidades desde las distintas culturas políticas, tanto las que ocupaban el espacio oficial como aquellas que se valieron del homenaje a sus difuntos para hacer visible su oposición al poder

Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Political customs and rites --- Political culture

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By drawing on the social history of the social sciences, the sociology of scientific knowledge, and the ethnography of the State, these essays show how anthropology and state-building should be considered as intertwined processes.

Political anthropology. --- Political customs and rites. --- Politics and culture.