{"product_id":"ritual-and-the-body-maria-mayerchyk-9780674307797","title":"Ritual and the Body: Ukrainian Rites of Passage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRitual and the Body\u003c\/i\u003e explores how people experience life's most profound transitions: birth, marriage, and death. Drawing on Ukrainian folk traditions, Maria Mayerchyk shows how rituals mark changes in social status by shaping how the body moves, speaks, eats, hears, and even feels itself to exist. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom christenings and weddings to funerals, the book follows key figures and moments of ritual life--the newborn child, parents, newlyweds, and the deceased--and reveals how bodily states, clothing, sound, food, light and darkness, joy and grief all carry meaning. With clarity and insight, Mayerchyk invites readers to see the human body as a powerful cultural language, one through which communities make sense of loss, transformation, and belonging.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maria Mayerchyk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674307798\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674307797\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Maria Mayerchyk","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48743117816063,"sku":"9780674307797","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_44ecd4d3-fdee-4598-9203-a327f763cd8c.jpg?v=1782449890","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ritual-and-the-body-maria-mayerchyk-9780674307797","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}