Ritual communication [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Gunter Senft and Ellen Basso

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Berg Publishers, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (398 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.2
• Soggetto topico: Communication and culture; Language and culture; Rites and ceremonies
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: SenftGunter <1952-> BassoEllen B. <1942->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 12 "While I Sing I Am Sitting in a Real Airplane"13 Interior Dialogues; References Cited; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. This title examines how people create and express meaning through verbal and non-verbal ritual.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ritual communication
• ISBN: 1-000-18145-6; 1-003-08658-6; 1-4742-1544-0; 1-282-38750-2; 9786612387500; 1-84788-702-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910485653003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Wenner-Gren international symposium series.