Interview with Maurice Bloch

Authors

• Maurice Bloch London School of Economics
• Timo Kallinen University of Helsinki

Abstract

Professor Maurice Bloch visited Finland in March 2014 as the keynote speaker of the interdisciplinary symposium 'Ritual Intimacy – Ritual Publicity' organized by the Collegium for Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki. In connection to his visit he granted an interview to Suomen Antropologi, in which he discusses some of the central points of his ritual theory and shares his views on past, present and future directions in the study of ritual.