Contents

1. Introduction: The Aesthetics of Symbolic Construction and Experience - Bruce Kapferer and Angela Hobart
2. Making Grown Men Weep - William O. Beeman
3. The Buzz of God and the Click of Delight- David Shulman
4. Songs of Love, Images of Memory-Saskia Kersenboom
5. The Hindu Temple and the Aesthetics of the Imaginary - Rohan Bastin
6. Where Divine Horsemen Ride: Trance Dancing in West Africa - Steven M. Friedson
7. Sorcery and the Beautiful: A Discorse on the Aesthetics of Ritual - Bruce Kapferer
8. Transformation and Aesthetics in Balinese Masked Performances-Rangda and Barong - Angela Hobart
9. A Concise Reflection on the Brazilian Carnival - Roberto DaMatta
10. Bureaucratic Logic, Bureaucratic Aesthetics: The Opening Event of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day in Israel - Don Handelman
11. Compassion for Animals, Indifference to Humans: Non- and Misperceptions among Circus Audiences in 1970s Britain - Yoram S. Carmeli