caa a22 4500 388064749 CHVBK 20180307125130.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0041977X00018541 doi S0041977X00018541 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0041977X00018541 Kassam Aneesa University of Durham Ritual and classification: a study of the Booran Oromo terminal sacred grade rites of passage [Elektronische Daten] [Aneesa Kassam] In her deconstruction of the category ‘ritual', Bell (1992: 6) suggests that all theoretical discourse on this subject is based on the opposition between thought (beliefs, symbols and myths) and action (the enactment of such cultural templates). Bell further demonstrates that this basic distinction has generated two other homologized structural patterns in ritual theory. In the second pattern, (represented in the works of Durkheim, Tambiah and Turner), there has been an attempt to produce a synthesis of the initial dichotomy. In the third pattern (represented in the studies of Geertz), this opposition and integration has led to another permutation of the original pattern, in which ‘ritual participants act, whereas those observing them think' (Bell, 1992: 28). Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1999 Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Cambridge University Press 62/3(1999-10), 484-503 0041-977X 62:3<484 1999 62 BSO https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00018541 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X00018541 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kassam Aneesa University of Durham NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Cambridge University Press 62/3(1999-10), 484-503 0041-977X 62:3<484 1999 62 BSO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge