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Ritual Textuality - Pattern and Motion in Performance (Hardcover)
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Ritual Textuality - Pattern and Motion in Performance (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Ritual Studies
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A classic question in studies of ritual is how ritual performances
achieve-or fail to achieve-their effects. In this pathbreaking
book, Matt Tomlinson argues that participants condition their own
expectations of ritual success by interactively creating distinct
textual patterns of sequence, conjunction, contrast, and
substitution. Drawing on long-term research in Fiji, the book
presents in-depth studies of each of these patterns, taken from a
wide range of settings: a fiery, soul-saving Pentecostal crusade;
relaxed gatherings at which people drink the narcotic beverage
kava; deathbeds at which missionaries eagerly await the signs of
good Christians' "happy deaths"; and the monologic pronouncements
of a military-led government determined to make the nation speak in
a single voice. In each of these cases, Tomlinson also examines the
broad ideologies of motion which frame participants' ritual
actions, such as Pentecostals' beliefs that effective worship
requires ecstatic movement like jumping, dancing, and clapping, and
nineteenth-century missionaries' insistence that the journeys of
the soul in the afterlife should follow a new path. By approaching
ritual as an act of "entextualization"-in which the flow of
discourse is turned into object-like texts-while analyzing the ways
people expect words, things, and selves to move in performance,
this book presents a new and compelling way to understand the
efficacy of ritual action.
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