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The article discusses the motives and functions of self-injurious acts in ritual practices of primitive tribes, religious rituals and modern practices of body modification.

ABSTRACTScholars disagree as to whether or not a homogeneous global youth culture exists. This study explores the nuances and glocalisation of authentic adolescent ritual practice/s in Scotland and the USA. The high school prom is a ritual imported recently to the UK from the USA. This study reports on questionnaire responses and focus group data with adolescents in Scotland and US exchange students at UK universities. The study probes the assumptions and realities that constitute authentic appropriation of this event. Scottish adolescents' perceptions of US high school prom practice emphasises the presence of indexical cues whereas Scottish practice relies on the iconic. Indexical and iconic cues are interdependent for US respondents. Future research opportunities as well as marketing implications are provided. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

This article takes up the distinction between the textual and social practices (that is, actions taken in the social world). In the same way that different literary genres are themselves subject to different interpretative operations, ritual practice and the reading of texts are not strictly analogous. Here Clifford Geertz's famous rendering of the so-called "text analogy" in the social sciences can be misleading. If we believe that it is important to recover historical meanings expressed in ritual form, then we must be careful to differentiate between how social practices work from how texts work. This article considers ritual practices, including those of sociability, in British radical politics in the age of the French revolution, as well as considering rationalist hostility to ritual performance and the privileging of the printed text over ritual and spectacle. ; Este artículo se ocupa de la distinción entre prácticas textuales y sociales (esto es, acciones que abarcan el mundo social). De la misma forma que los diferentes géneros literarios, son sujeto, por sí mismos, de diferentes operaciones interpretativas, la práctica ritual y la lectura de textos no es algo estrictamente análogo. Aquí, la famosa interpretación de la llamada "analogía textual" de Clifford Geertz en las ciencias sociales, puede ser engañosa. Si creemos que es importante recuperar los significados históricos expresados de una manera ritual, entonces debemos ser cuidadosos al diferenciar entre cómo trabajan las prácticas sociales y cómo trabajan los textos. Este artículo tiene en cuenta las practicas rituales en el marco de la política radical británica durante la época de la Revolución Francesa -incluyendo estas de sociabilidad-, tanto como la hostilidad racionalista a la representación ritual y al privilegio del texto impreso sobre el ritual y el espectáculo.

The Rousing Drum: Ritual Practice in. Japanese Community. Scott Schnell. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999. 363 pp.

'The Rousing Drum: Ritual Practice in a Japanese Community' by Scott Schnell is reviewed.

This article considers the intricate entanglements of ritual, history and power by focusing on the recent rejuvenation of ritual practices pertaining to former kings as enacted in contemporary Huế, the former imperial capital of Việt Nam (1802–1945). It examines how the Nguyễn monarchs, who were previously repudiated by the early socialist regime, have been ritually reinstated as extraordinary ancestral figures and acknowledged as potent spirits to whom many turn for blessings. Drawing on ethnographic and historical material, the article traces changes in the locals' ritual engagements with the royal dead and pays attention to fluctuations in the posthumous fate of the Nguyễn royalty while highlighting the city's transformation from imperial capital to a tourist marketplace via the horrors of the battlefield.

Creighton reviews RITUAL PRACTICE IN MODERN JAPAN: Ordering Place, People, and Action by Satsuki Kawano.