The Oxford Handbook of Ritual Language

NOTE EDITORE

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.

SOMMARIO

1 - Language, ritual, and colonialism: A brief cultural history2 - The anthropology of ritual language: Classic and contemporary approaches3 - The chronotopic and sonotopic work of ritual4 - The language of secrecy5 - The ritual language of militarization6 - Language and ritual healing7 - Ritual language and sacred labor in Greater Mexico8 - Ritual speech and text in early Cherokee Christianity9 - Colonial rule, modernity, and rituals of royal power in Morocco10 - Ritual, media, and the here-and-now of decolonization11 - Ritual language and forced confessions in China12 - Language, ritual, and political legitimation in colonial Guatemala13 - Indigenous territoriality and the mediation of space and scale in ritual language14 - Affectivity and repetition in Amazonian ceremonial welcoming dialogues15 - Language, Nahua life-cycle rituals, and Indigenous identity16 - Places that talk--and listen: Southern Quechua17 - Drinking, talking, and ritual action18 - Ritual language and police discretion19 - Ritual language in West Africa: Participation and performance20 - Language, worldview, and rituals of daily social interaction21 - Scalar poetics in ritual language22 - Rituals of mourning and the poetics of Papiamentu talk radio23 - Ritualized learning and endangered languages24 - Embodied ritual performance and new writing systems

AUTORE

David Tavárez is Professor of Anthropology at Vassar College. His work focuses on language and history; Indigenous intellectuals; and Native Christianities. A former Guggenheim Fellow and the co-editor of Anthropological Linguistics, he is author, co-author, or editor of five books, including the award-winning Rethinking Zapotec Time(Texas, 2022) and The Invisible War(Stanford, 2011), along with more than sixty articles and chapters.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780192868091
• Collana: Oxford Handbooks
• Dimensioni: 252 x 36.0 x 175 mm Ø 1248 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 624