Touching the Azerbaijani Theatre: From Ritual to Spontaneity
The term of ritual has always been an object for endless discussions amongst theologians, cultural theorists, anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers, etc. Many myth theorists looked to ritual as a description of the religion. But recently, some symbolic anthropologists, for example, W. Robertson Smith or Clifford Geertz, have found the ritual to be fundamental to the dynamics […] The full version of the artic…