The Center out There: Pilgrim's Goal

As an example of how a social anthropologist of my theoretical position would approach the study of a specific type of ritual symbols, namely, those associated with religious pilgrimages, I am presenting some "work in progress." I have begun to make a comparative study of pilgrimage processes, not only as they exist at a given time but also as they have changed over time, and of the relations into which different pilgrimage processes have entered in the course of massive stretches of time. The main focus