Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Ritual as a Storytelling Process and Social–Action Descriptor
Alfredo Tenoch Cid Jurado and Edwin Jair Vázquez Nájera (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico)
Chapter 2. Trade Networks in Objects for the Traditional Day of the Dead Offering at Ozumba Tianguis
Teresa Mora Vázquez, Juan Alberto Román Berrelleza and Esther Gallardo González (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México)
Chapter 3. Networks in Modern Rituals: An Ethnographic Method for Quantitative Semiotics
Berna Leticia Valle and Oswaldo Morales Matamoros (Instituto Politécnico Nacional México, México)
Chapter 4. The Human Body in Mesoamerican Ritual: Bones, Symbols and the Underworld
Gabriela Salas Bautista, José Concepción Jiménez and Berna Valle Canales (National Museum of Anthropology and History, Direction of Physical Anthropology, Mexico City, Mexico, and others)
Chapter 5. Maternity Care Rituals, Established Practices and Emerging Alternatives: A Spatial Perspective
Myrto Chronaki, PhD (Post Doctoral Researcher, National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
Chapter 6. Transition to Motherhood Ritual: South American Women’s Words in Italy
Laura Migliorini, Nadia Rania and Lucia Piano (Department of Education Sciences, University of Genoa, Italy)
Chapter 7. Family Rituals in the Context of Migration: Research Data and a Case Analysis Between Italy and Chile
Laura Migliorini, Luisa Castaldi and Nadia Rania (University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy and others)
Chapter 8. Family Rituals of the Kazakhs: Children’s Life Cycle Rites
Raushan Muhamedzhanovna Mustafina (Doctor Istoricheskih Nauk, Professor, Department of Archaeology and Ethnology, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan)
Chapter 9. The Importance of Rituals in Understanding Mass Homicide: A Structural Ritualization Analysis of the Ronald Gene Simmons Murders
Jason S. Ulsperger, J. David Knottnerus and Kristen Ulsperger (Associate Professor of Sociology, Arkansas Tech University, AR, USA, and others)
Index