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By Matt Tomlinson

ISBN-10: 0199341133

ISBN-13: 9780199341139

ISBN-10: 0199341141

ISBN-13: 9780199341146

A vintage query in reports of formality is how ritual performances achieve-or fail to achieve-their results. during this pathbreaking booklet, Matt Tomlinson argues that individuals their very own expectancies of formality luck through interactively developing exact textual styles of series, conjunction, distinction, and substitution. Drawing on long term learn in Fiji, Ritual Textuality offers in-depth reviews of every of those styles, taken from a variety of settings: a fiery, soul-saving Pentecostal campaign; comfortable gatherings at which individuals drink the narcotic beverage kava; deathbeds at which missionaries eagerly look ahead to the symptoms of fine Christians' "happy deaths"; and the monologic pronouncements of a military-led govt decided to make the kingdom communicate in one voice. In each one of those instances, Tomlinson additionally examines the huge ideologies of movement which body contributors' ritual activities, reminiscent of Pentecostals' ideals that potent worship calls for ecstatic flow like leaping, dancing, and clapping, and nineteenth-century missionaries' insistence that the trips of the soul within the afterlife may still keep on with a brand new direction. by way of imminent ritual as an act of "entextualization"-in which the circulation of discourse is became object-like texts-while studying the methods humans count on phrases, issues, and selves to maneuver in functionality, this e-book offers a brand new and compelling option to comprehend the efficacy of formality action.

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