Pascal Lardellier is Professor at the University of Burgundy, a researcher at CIMEOS and at PROPEDIA (IGS Group, Paris). Among his 20 books, several examine rituals in depth. This particular book proposes a summary of more than two decades of his research on them.

• 1. A Plurality of Anthropology, a Permanence of Symbolic Mediations.2. The Ritual, a “Total Scientific Object”. 3. Rituals and the Media.4. The Ritual Institution of Society.

Pascal Lardellier is Professor at the University of Burgundy, a researcher at CIMEOS and at PROPEDIA (IGS Group, Paris). Among his 20 books, several examine rituals in depth. This particular book proposes a summary of more than two decades of his research on them.

• 1. A Plurality of Anthropology, a Permanence of Symbolic Mediations.2. The Ritual, a “Total Scientific Object”. 3. Rituals and the Media.4. The Ritual Institution of Society.

Pascal Lardellier is Professor at the University of Burgundy, a researcher at CIMEOS and at PROPEDIA (IGS Group, Paris). Among his 20 books, several examine rituals in depth. This particular book proposes a summary of more than two decades of his research on them.

• 1. A Plurality of Anthropology, a Permanence of Symbolic Mediations.2. The Ritual, a “Total Scientific Object”. 3. Rituals and the Media.4. The Ritual Institution of Society.