Relationality
Keywords:
ritual, relational proposal, anthropological theory.Abstract
In the present text, Michel Houseman makes a synthesis of the central approaches of the relational proposal for the study of rituals, initially developed together with Carlo Severi in the review of the work Naven by Gregory Bateson.
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