TY - BOOK AU - La Fontaine,J.S. AU - Richards,Audrey I. TI - The interpretation of ritual: essays in honour of A.I. Richards SN - 0422738808 AV - BL600 .L34 1972 PY - 1972///] CY - [London] PB - Tavistock Publications KW - Richards, Audrey I. KW - Ritual KW - Symbolism N1 - Includes bibliographical references; -- Introduction, by J.S. La Fontaine.--Verbal and bodily rituals of greeting and parting, by R. Firth.--Greeting, begging, and the presentation of respect, by E. Goody.--Twinship and symbolic structure, by A. Southall.--Spirit, twins, and ashes in Labwor, Northern Uganda, by R.G. Abrahams.--Belief and the problem of women, by E. Ardener.--Ritualization of women's life-crises in Bugisu, by J.S. La Fontaine.--The wedding cakes: a study of ritual change, by M. Wilson.--The significance of kava in Tongan myth and ritual, by E. Bott and E. Leach.--Psychoanalysis and ceremony, by E. Bott.--The structure of symbolism, by E. Leach.--A rejoinder to Edmund Leach, by E. Bott.--Appendix, by E. Leach.--Bibliography of the principal writings of Audrey Richards, by P.H. Gulliver. (pages [285]-289) ER -