Book announcement - Ritual Communication by Ellen B. Basso & Gunter Senft

Thu Nov 26 22:14:11 UTC 2009

Ritual Communication

Gunter Senft 
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Ellen B. Basso 
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Ritual Communication examines how people create and express meaning 
through verbal and non-verbal ritual. Ritual communication extends 
beyond collective religious expression. It is an intrinsic part of 
everyday interactions, ceremonies, theatrical performances, shamanic 
chants, political demonstrations and rites of passage.

Despite being largely formulaic and repetitive, ritual communication is 
a highly participative and self-oriented process. The ritual is shaped 
by time, space and the individual body as well as by language 
ideologies, local aesthetics, contexts of use, and relations among 
participants.

Ritual Communication draws on a wide range of contemporary cultures -- 
from Africa, America, Asia, and the Pacific -- to present a rich and 
diverse study for students and scholars of anthropology, sociology and 
sociolinguistics.

    About the author

Ellen B. Basso is Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of 
Arizona. Gunter Senft is senior research fellow at the 
Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen and extraordinary 
Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Cologne

    Contents

Introduction: Ritual Communication
Ellen B. Basso and Gunter Senft

1 Little Rituals
John B. Haviland

2 Everyday Ritual in the Residential World
N. J. Enfield

3 Trobriand Islanders' Forms of Ritual Communication
Gunter Senft

4 "Like a Crab Teaching its Young to Walk Straight": Proverbiality, 
semantics and
indexicality in English and Malay
Cliff Goddard

5 Access Rituals in West African Communities: an Ethnopragmatic
Perspective
Felix K. Ameka

6 Ritual and the Circulation of Experience
Suzanne Oakdale

7 Communicative Resonance across Settings: Marriage Arrangement,
Initiation and Political Meetings in Kenya
Corinne A. Kratz

8 Ritualised Performances as Total Social Facts: the House of
Multiple Spirits
Ingjerd Hoëm

9 "Pengunjuk Rasa" (expression of feelings) in Sumba: "Bloody
Thursday" in its Cultural and Historical Context
Joel C. Kuipers

10 Civility and Deception in two Kalapalo Ritual Forms
Ellen B. Basso

11 Private Ritual Encounters, Public Ritual Indexes
Michael Silverstein

12 "Kantámpranku awiúnkanam enkémturnai..."  "While I sing I am Sitting
in a Real Air-Plane..." Innovative Contents in Shuar and Achuar Ritual
Communication.
Maurizio Gnerre

13 Interior Dialogues: The Co-Voicing of Ritual in Solitude
John W. Du Bois

Index

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Series:
Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series 
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Nov 2009
400pp, 31 b/w illus.
9781847882950

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"This volume will stand as a benchmark work in the exploration of ritual 
communication, a notoriously expansive notion that can include the 
stereotypy of animal behavior, the routinization of social 
interaction and the symbolic density of religious enactment. 
The richness of the essays makes the volume a true delight to read, and 
the analytical rigor that the authors bring to bear in their case 
studies sheds clear light on the complex relations between discursive 
form, social function, cultural meaning, and personal experience in 
ritual semiosis." Professor Richard Bauman, Indiana University

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Prof. Dr. Gunter Senft

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