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Title Ritual communication / edited by Gunter Senft and Ellen B. Basso.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2009.

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Edition English ed.
Description 1 online resource (xi, 385 pages) : illustrations, plans.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Wenner-Gren international symposium series, 1475-536X
Wenner-Gren Center international symposium series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Contents List of Figures; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1 Little Rituals; 2 Everyday Ritual in the Residential World; 3 Trobriand Islanders' Forms of Ritual Communication; 4 "Like a Crab Teaching Its Young to Walk Straight"; 5 Access Rituals in West African Communities; 6 Ritual and the Circulation of Experience; 7 Communicative Resonance across Settings; 8 Ritualized Performances as Total Social Facts; 9 Unjuk Rasa ("Expression of Feeling") in Sumba; 10 Civility and Deception in Two Kalapalo Ritual Forms; 11 Private Ritual Encounters, Public Ritual Indexes.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Communication and culture.
Communication and culture.
Language and culture.
Language and culture.
Rites and ceremonies.
Rites and ceremonies.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Senft, Gunter, 1952-
Basso, Ellen B., 1942-
Other Form: Print version: Ritual communication. English ed. Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2009 9781847882967 (DLC) 2009037330 (OCoLC)430839563
ISBN 9781847887023 (electronic book)
1847887023 (electronic book)
9781847882967 (cloth)
184788296X (cloth)
9781847882950 (paperback)
1847882951 (paperback)