Rules without meaning: ritual, mantras and the human sciences
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Titel: Rules without meaning
Autor: Staal, Frits
Jahr: 1989
Contents
Preface. xiii
A note on the pronunciation of Sanskrit. xxi
Part I. Methods, Meanings and Rules
Introductory Note. 1
1 Meanings and Rules in the Human Sciences. 3
2 The Empiricist Caricature of Science. 7
3 The Positivist Critique of Meaning. 17
3A. Ludwig Wittgenstein. 21
3B. Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer . 25
4 Linguistic Background. 33
5 The Origins of Linguistics in India. 37
6 Contemporary Linguistics and Rules 47
6A. Noam Chomsky. 52
6B. Chomsky versus Wittgenstein. 55
Part II. Ritual
Introductory Note. 61
7 Vedic Ritual. 65
8 The Agnicayana Ritual. 71
9 Basic Rites. 79
9A. The Isti. 79
9B. Soma Sequences. 81
10 The Structure of Ritual. 85
x Contents
11 Embedding and Transformation. 91
11A. The Kindling Verses. 91
11B. From Agnistoma to Agnicayana. 92
11C. The Final lastra for the Asvin Twins. 94
11D. Conclusions. 94
12 Ritual and Grammar. 101
13 Interpretations of Ritual. 115
13A. Indian Interpretations. 117
13B. Western Interpretations. 122
13C. The Meaninglessness of Ritual. 131
14 Anthropology without Asia. 141
14A. Raymond Firth. 143
14B. Victor Turner. 152
15 Syntax, Semantics and Performatives. 157
16 Music and Ritual. 165
16A. Seven Musical Structures. 165
16B. Seven Ritual Structures. 178
16C. Conclusions. 182
Part III. Mantras
Introductory Note. 191
17 Six Vedic Mantras. 199
18 Ritual Context. 201
19 The Syntax of Stobhas. 209
20 Vedic and Tantric Mantras. 223
21 Performatives, Pragmatics and Performance. 237
21 A. Performatives Again. 237
21B. Pragmatics. 242
21C. Performance and Competence. 245
22 Mantras and Language. 253
23 Mantras and Bird Songs. 279
24 Mantras by Chance. 295
Contents xi
25 Anthropology without Mantras. 313
25A. Object Semantics: Stanley Tambiah. 314
25B. Psycho-Semantics: Gananath Obeyesekere. 320
25C. Thick Semantics: Clifford Geertz. 326
Part IV. The Human Sciences
26 The Science of Ritual. 349
27 Orai Traditions. 369
28 Religions. 387
28A. Seeking Religion in Asia. 387
28B. Seeking out the Buddha. 406
28C. Mythology. 416
28D. Philosophy of Religion. 418
29 The Myth of the Two Cultures. 421
30 Conclusions. 433
30A. The Origin of Language. 433
30B. Michel Foucault. 441
30C. Concluding Generalities. 447
EXCURSUS: "Writing in the Sky"?Hermeneutics and
Astrology: A Neoplatonic Parallel. 455
Bibliography. 459
Index of Names. 481
FIGURES
1. The Ritual Enclosure. 71
TABLES
1. The Sàmidhenl Verses. 92
2. Sequence of Rites on the Third and Fourth Days. 93 |
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