Conventions Introduction Chapter One: Ritual in the Liji Chapter Two: A Typology of Dysfunction Chapter Three: Coming to Terms with Dysfunction Chapter Four: Preventing Chapter Five: The Inevitability of Failure Chapter Six: Whose Fault is Failure? Ambiguity and Impinging Agencies Chapter Seven: The Ancients did not Fix Their Graves Chapter Eight: Productive Anxieties and the Awfulness of Failed Ritual Concluding Reflections: Toward a Tragic Theory of Ritual Appendix: On the Textual Composition of the Liji Notes Bibliography Index
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