The Monologic Imagination

Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction - Imagining the Monologic - Matt Tomlinson Chapter 1 Cultural Replication: The Source of Monological and Dialogical Models of Culture Greg Urban Chapter 2 Dialogic Prophecies and Monologic Vision Jon Bialecki Chapter 3 Monologue and Dialogism in Highland New Guinea Verbal Art Alan Rumsey Discussion Is It Monologic? Is It Dialogic? What Difference Does It Make? Don Kulick Chapter 4 "With Unity We Will Be Victorious!": A Monological Poetics of Political "Conscientization" within the Cuban Revolution. Kristina Wirtz Chapter 5 From Neighborhood Talk to Talking for the Neighborhood Zane Goebel Chapter 6 Monologue and Authority in Iran: Ethnic and Religious Heteroglossia in the Islamic Republic James Barry Discussion Diving into the Gap: "Words," "Voices," and the Ethnographic Implications of Linguistic Disjuncture. Krista E. Van Vleet Chapter 7 Acting with One Voice: Producing Unanimism in Algerian Reformist Theater Jane E. Goodman Chapter 8 Creedal Monologism and Theological Articulation in the Mennonite Central Committee Philip Fountain Chapter 9 The Public Metaculture of Islamic Preaching Julian Millie Discussion The Monologic Imagination of Social Groups Courtney Handman Conclusion Religious and Political Terrain of the Monologic Imagination