Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 385 p)
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ill
Edition:
English ed
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2014 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9781474215442
Series Statement:
Wenner-Gren international symposium series
Content:
"This volume presents a new approach to "ritual communication" by an international group of scholars from a multidisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective, rich with empirical data and path breaking for future theorizing on the topic. The chapters show how ritual communication involves witnessing a future through the making of cultural knowledge. They show ritual communication to be a highly "self-oriented" multimodal process in which the human body, temporalization, and spatialized settings play crucial roles. Ritual communication encompasses both verbal and sensory attributes. It is in part dependent upon prior formulaic and repeated action, and is thus anticipated within particular contexts of social interaction. It is performed and therefore subject to evaluation by its participants according to standards defined by language ideologies, local aesthetics, contexts of use, and interpersonal relations. The authors here emphasize the variety of participatory and experiential aspects of ritual communication in contemporary African, Native American, Asian, and Pacific cultures. Among the forms covered are ritual constraints on everyday interaction, gossip, private and public encounters, political meetings and public demonstrations, rites of passage, theatrical performances, magical formulae, shamanic chants, affinal civilities, and leaders' ceremonial discourse. The book is ideal for students and scholars in anthropology and linguistic anthropology in particular."--Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-372) and index
,
Also issued in print.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781847882967
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781847887023
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781847882950
Additional Edition:
Available in another form
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781474215442
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