Frits Staal

List of John Benjamins publications in which Frits Staal is involved.

Article

Staal, Frits 2003 Simultaneities in Vedic ritual Ritual Language Behaviour, Bax, Marcel (ed.), pp. 195–210 | Article

The use of language primarily displays succession, not simultaneity. It is common for people to talk at the same time or interrupt each other, but this is reduced to cases of succession. Vedic ritual involves not only succession but also simultaneities that are structural.1 In the “Soma swelling”… read more