Angela Hobart is the coordinating lecturer at Goldsmiths College on Intercultural Therapy and lectures at the British Museum on the Art and Culture of South East Asia.

Bruce Kapferer is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Adjunct Professor at James Cook University and Honorary Professor at University College London.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Aesthetics of Symbolic Construction and Experience
Bruce Kapferer and Angela Hobart

Chapter 1. Making Grown Men Weep
William O. Beeman

Chapter 2. The Buzz of God and the Click of Delight
David Shulman

Chapter 3. Songs of Love, Images of Memory
Saskia Kersenboom

Chapter 4. The Hindu Temple and the Aesthetics of the Imaginary
Rohan Bastin

Chapter 5. Where Divine Horsemen Ride: Trance Dancing in West Africa
Steven M. Friedson

Chapter 6. Sorcery and the Beautiful: A Discourse on the Aesthetics of Ritual
Bruce Kapferer

Chapter 7. Transformation and Aesthetics in Balinese Masked Performances—Rangda and Barong
Angela Hobart

Chapter 8. A Concise Reflection on the Brazilian Carnival
Roberto DaMatta

Chapter 9. Bureaucratic Logic, Bureaucratic Aesthetics: The Opening Event of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day in Israel
Don Handelman

Chapter 10. Compassion for Animals, Indifference to Humans: Non- and Misperceptions among Circus Audiences in 1970s Britain
Yoram S. Carmeli

Notes on Contributors
Index