
The Oxford Handbook of Ritual Language
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- Part I. Ritual Language in History and Anthropology
- 1: David Tavárez: Language, ritual, and colonialism: A brief cultural history
- 2: David Tavárez: The anthropology of ritual language: Classic and contemporary approaches
- Part II. Rethinking Ritual Language in Method and Theory
- 3: Kristina Wirtz: The chronotopic and sonotopic work of ritual
- 4: Paul Christopher Johnson: The language of secrecy
- 5: Janet McIntosh: The ritual language of militarization
- 6: Timothy W. Knowlton: Language and ritual healing
- Part III. Ritual Language, Colonialism, and State Hegemony
- 7: Jennifer Scheper Hughes: Ritual language and sacred labor in Greater Mexico
- 8: Margaret Bender and Thomas N. Belt: Ritual speech and text in early Cherokee Christianity
- 9: Abdelmajid Hannoum: Colonial rule, modernity, and rituals of royal power in Morocco
- 10: Courtney Handman: Ritual, media, and the here-and-now of decolonization
- 11: Magnus Fiskesjö: Ritual language and forced confessions in China
- Part IV. Ritual Language, Cosmology, and Identity
- 12: Sergio Romero: Language, ritual, and political legitimation in colonial Guatemala
- 13: Paul Liffman: Indigenous territoriality and the mediation of space and scale in ritual language
- 14: Alexandre Surrallés: Affectivity and repetition in Amazonian ceremonial welcoming dialogues
- 15: Abelardo de la Cruz: Language, Nahua life-cycle rituals, and Indigenous identity
- 16: Bruce Mannheim: Places that talk--and listen: Southern Quechua
- Part V. Ritual Speech and the Arts of Sociability
- 17: Paul Manning: Drinking, talking, and ritual action
- 18: Sonia N. Das: Ritual language and police discretion
- 19: Nikolas Sweet: Ritual language in West Africa: Participation and performance
- 20: Sean O'Neill: Language, worldview, and rituals of daily social interaction
- Part VI. Ritual Language, Mediation, and Pluralism
- 21: Adam Harr: Scalar poetics in ritual language
- 22: Louis Römer: Rituals of mourning and the poetics of Papiamentu talk radio
- 23: Morgan Siewert: Ritualized learning and endangered languages
- 24: Nishaant Choksi: Embodied ritual performance and new writing systems
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