SOCI 4074

SOCI 4074 Ritual and Ceremony is about ritual and ceremony, as both analytic and descriptive concepts, in both industrial states and subsistence-oriented societies. Topics examined could include: the universality of ritual and ceremony; essential differences between ritual and ceremony; their relative importance in non-industrialised and industrialised societies; the place of symbolism in ritual and ceremony; and the relationship between ritual, ceremony, religion and the sacred. EQ: Religion and Culture 4074, the former Sociology/Anthropology 4074, the former Anthropology 4074