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MARIAL CENTER COLLOQUIUM
Bradd Shore (Department of Anthropology,
Emory University and
Director, MARIAL Center)
"What's So Special About
Ritual?"
Lecture and Discussion
Wednesday, February 14th, 2001, 3:00 p.m.
Ritual has always been a topic of special interest
to anthropologists. But why?
The answer to this question is not self-evident, and calls for
us to take another
look at ritual as a very special sort of behavior with properties
that link it at once
to our mammalian heritage and to our deepest concerns with meaning-making.
This presentation will take the form of a lecture/discussion "workshop"
format
in which an informal talk laying out the distinctive "design
features" of ritual
will be punctuated by questions and conversation from the audience.
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Bradd Shore is Professor of Anthropology at Emory
University and holds the
Emory College Distinguished Teaching Chair in the Sciences and
Social
Sciences. Since 1999 he has been Director of the Emory Center
for Myth and
Ritual in American Life (MARIAL Center). His most recent books
are Culture
in Mind: Cognition, Culture and the Problem of Meaning (Oxford,
1996) and
How Culture Means (Clark University Press, 1998). Currently, Shore
is
researching family time allocation and ritual in Newton County,
GA.
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The MARIAL Center
Emory West, 4th Floor, Room 415E
Open to the public
Refreshments will be served
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DIRECTIONS TO THE MARIAL CENTER
The MARIAL Center is located on the 4th floor
of the main building of Emory West, 1256 Briarcliff Rd. There
is ample parking close to the building. Alternatively, you may
take the Emory shuttle (Route W). The shuttle leaves every half
hour from the main campus and is a 10-minute ride. Route W shuttle
stops are located at the corner of Asbury Circle and Pierce
Drive, along Pierce Drive, and in front of the Administration
Building.
Please tell the receptionist at the front window
that you are here for the MARIAL Center lecture.
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