Rituals and Mantras Rules Without Meaning
Rules Without Meaning is an original study of Ritual and Mantras by Frits Staal which shows that rites lead a life of their own, unaffected by religion or society. In its analysis of Vedic ritual, it uses methods inspired by logic, linguistics, anthropology and Asian studies.
Rituals and Mantras Rules Without Meaning Book Content
- Meanings and Rules in the Human Sciences
- The Empiricist Caricature of Science
- The Positivist Critique of Meaning
- Linguistic Background
- The Origins of Linguistics in India
- Contemporary Linguistics and Rules
- Vedic Ritual
- The Agnicayana Ritual
- Basic Rites
- The Structure of Ritual
- Embedding and Transformation
- Ritual and Grammar
- Interpretations of Ritual
- Anthropology without Asia
- Syntax, Semantics and Performatives
- Music and Ritual
- Six Vedic Mantras
- Ritual Context
- The Syntax of Stobhas
- Vedic and Tantric Mantras
- Performatives, Pragmatics and Performance
- Mantras and Language
- Mantras and Bird Songs
- Mantras by Chance
- Anthropology without Mantras
- The Science of Ritual
- Oral Traditions
- Religions
- The Myth of the Two Cultures
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