19 April 2009
The webmasters have invited the artist and several others to discuss these images. What is, or might be, their relevance to ritual or its study? Would they enhance a ritual? Detract from it? Would it depend on what kind of ritual? Are the images ”artistic” or ”liturgical?” What’s the difference, if any? How might, or ought, a student of [...]
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20 March 2009
The images in texts and textbooks devoted to ritual are often of poor quality and limited due to cost. Since much ritual is highly visual, it makes sense that students of ritual tend to photographing rites. Photographing ritual opens up methodological and theoretical questions, but also technical and aesthetic ones. We offer here two different examples of [...]
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