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4. See more on the objectification of ritual in Goody 1977. 5. For a detailed discussion of ritual theories and for a history of the study of ritual, see Catherine Bell’s two important works, Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice (1992) and Ritual. Perspectives and Dimensions (2009). 6. Ronald Grimes, one of the most renowned scholars of contemporary ritual and founder of the interdisciplinary discipline of ritual studies, advocates a practice-oriented approach to the study of ritual which means that it should be studied from the actor’s view.
In the case of shichigosan, consumption practices play an important role not only with regard to its present pattern. Early forms of consumption of goods distinguished some premodern patterns of the ritual as early as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In this case, the overall analysis and interpretation of the ritual needs to engage with an analysis of the changes that also occurred in related consumption. SCHOLARSHIP ON CONSUMPTION In the social sciences, discourses on consumption go hand in hand with discourses on modernity.
Early forms of consumption of goods distinguished some premodern patterns of the ritual as early as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In this case, the overall analysis and interpretation of the ritual needs to engage with an analysis of the changes that also occurred in related consumption. SCHOLARSHIP ON CONSUMPTION In the social sciences, discourses on consumption go hand in hand with discourses on modernity. Consumption and consumer culture are at the center of scholarly and public discourses engaging with the analysis of the salient social phenomena of our world.