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The orifice as sacrificial site : culture, organization, and the body

Title
The orifice as sacrificial site : culture, organization, and the body / James Aho.
Author
Aho, James A., 1942-
Publication
New York : Aldine de Gruyter, ©2002.

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Description
xii, 165 pages; 25 cm.
Summary
This book bases its argument on expert histories and primary documents of selected religions. Although based on textual analysis and documentary evidence this is essentially a social study. The goal of the author's study is to discover explanatory principles of orifice management, rather than to expound on the peculiarities of individual faiths. The work locates the attributes religions share, instead of the qualities that differentiate them.
Series Statement
Sociological imagination and structural change
Uniform Title
Sociological imagination and structural change.
Subject
  • Human body > Social aspects
  • Human body > Symbolic aspects
  • Human body > Religious aspects
  • Generative organs > Social aspects
  • Mouth > Social aspects
  • Anus > Social aspects
  • 11.09 systematic religious studies: other
  • Godsdienst
  • Menselijk lichaam
  • Mond
  • Anus
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-151) and index.
Contents
The Orifice Experience -- Hand Over That Hamburger -- Mitzvoth of the Mouth -- Unhinging the Gate -- The Specter of the Dalit -- The Dharma of the Lower Doors -- Tantric Revelations -- Gay Pride Days -- The Sabbat of Orifices -- A Politics of the Orifice -- Holy Hole.
ISBN
  • 0202306739
  • 9780202306735
  • 0202306747
  • 9780202306742
LCCN
2001008575
OCLC
  • ocm48691372
  • 48691372
  • SCSB-1260581
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library