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Date: 15-Apr-2025
From: Rachel Havard [Rachel.HAVARD at oup.com]
Subject: The Oxford Handbook of Ritual Language: Tavárez (ed.) (2025)


Title: The Oxford Handbook of Ritual Language
Series Title: Oxford Handbooks
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Oxford University Press
           http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-ritual-language-9780192868091?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics

Editor(s): David Tavárez

Abstract:

This volume brings together representative case studies and surveys
that explore research into ritual language, covering theoretical and
methodological approaches that reflect traditional inquiries and more
recent studies. This recent literature contends that ritual language
hinges on the construction of authoritative ontological models about
the cosmos and its inhabitants. Ritual speech also orchestrates
performances that articulate representations of collective identities,
and rests on the diversity of hierarchical forms of authoritative
knowledge, displayed in both oblique and direct terms. Moreover,
performances, texts, and narratives associated with ritual practices
are closely entwined with historical accounts that navigate current
memories, recast in a diversity of ways, about ancestral beings and
distant or recent pasts, or delimit a terrain in which dialectical
relationships with colonial hegemony and Christian indoctrination
emerge to transform the social order. Ritual narrative often offers in
its structure and delivery momentous representation of the social
order, social institutions, social difference, and collective
identities, and may also be constituted by claims about relations
among species, non-human actors, and material culture.
'The Oxford Handbook of Ritual Language' addresses foundational
questions regarding the scope, structuring, use, and consequences of
ritual language. The chapters examine the relationship between
speakers' consciousness and verbal ritual performances, and between
ritual language, hegemony, collective authority, and the social world.
As the study of ritual speech hinges on extensive analyses of
linguistic choices and styles, the contributors draw on data from a
wide range of language groups and societies in the Americas, the
Middle East, the Pacific, South Asia, and the Indian Ocean.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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