Demmer Ulrich The Power of Discourse in Ritual Performance (3825883000)
This volume focuses on the ways discourse is used in ritual performances as an important medium of power, enabling speakers/actors to construct, redefine and transform interpersonal relationships, cultural concepts and worldviews. The various case studies gathered here, from South Asia, South East Asia, Africa and South America, show that recent developments in linguistic anthropology, ritual theory and performance studies provide new conceptual tools to take a fresh look at these issues. The volume thus embraces both the micro level of speech activities as well as the macro level of social and political relationships and brings out the subtle workings of control, authority, and power in situations marked as ritual. 'Ulrich Demmer' is assistant professor at the University of Munich (Germany). 'Martin Gaenszle' is professor for Cultural History of South Asia at Vienna University (Austria).
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