Ritual communication / edited by Gunter Senft and Ellen Basso .
Senft, Gunter, 1952-; Basso, Ellen B., 1942-
2009
GN345.6 .R57 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
Ritual communication / edited by Gunter Senft and Ellen Basso .
Edition
English ed.
ISBN
9781847882950 (pbk.)
1847882951 (pbk.)
9781847882967
184788296X
Publication Details
Oxford ; New York : Berg Publishers, 2009.
Language
English
Description
xi, 385 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
GN345.6 .R57 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
302.2
Summary
"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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Senft, Gunter, 1952-
Basso, Ellen B., 1942-
Series
Wenner-Gren Center international symposium series.
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Little rituals / John B. Haviland
Everyday ritual in the residential world / N.J. Enfield
Trobriand Islanders' forms of ritual communication / Gunter Senft
"Like a crab teaching its young to walk straight": proverbiality, semantics, and indexicality in English and Malay / Cliff Goddard
Access rituals in West African communities: an ethnopragmatic perspective / Felix K. Ameka
Ritual and the circularion of experience: negotiating community in the twentieth-century Amazon / Suzanne Oakdale
Communicative resonance across settings: marriage arrangement, initiation, and political meetings in Kenya / Corinne A. Kratz
Ritualized performances as total social facts: the house of multiple spirits in Tokelau / Ingjerd Hoëm
Unjuk rasa ("expression of feeling") in Sumba: Bloody Thursday in its cultural and historical context / Joel C. Kuipers
Civility and deception in two Kalapalo ritual forms / Ellen B. Basso
Private ritual encounters, public ritual indexes / Michael Silverstein
"While I sing I am sitting in a real airplane": innovative contents in Shuar and Achuar ritual communication / Maurizio Gnerre
Interior dialogues: the co-voicing of ritual in solitude / John W. Du Bois.

Little rituals / John B. Haviland
Everyday ritual in the residential world / N.J. Enfield
Trobriand Islanders' forms of ritual communication / Gunter Senft
"Like a crab teaching its young to walk straight" : proverbiality, semantics and indexicality in English and Malay / Cliff Goddard
Access rituals in West African communities : an ethnopragmatic perspective / Felix K. Ameka
Ritual and the circulation of experience : negotiating community in the twentieth-century Amazon / Suzanne Oakdale
Communicative resonance across settings : marriage arrangement, initiation, and political meetings in Kenya / Corinne A. Kratz
Ritualized performances as total social facts : the house of multiple spirits in Tokelau / Ingjerd Hoëm
Unjuk rasa ("expression of feeling") in Sumba : Bloody Thursday in its cultural and historical context / Joel C. Kuipers
Civility and deception in two Kalapalo ritual forms / Ellen B. Basso
Private ritual encounters, public ritual indexes / Michael Silverstein
"While I sing I am sitting in a real airplane" : innovative contents in Shuar and Achuar ritual communication / Maurizio Gnerre
Interior dialogues : the co-voicing of ritual in solitude / John W. Du Bois.

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