Delegated voice

Ritual speech, risk, and the making of marriage alliances in Anakalang

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2466433
AutoresW Keane (0000-0003-4981-7030, University of Michigan, autor de correspondencia)
Año1991
Volumen18
Número2
Páginas311-330
Fecha de publicación1991-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/ae.1991.18.2.02a00070
OpenAlexW2070307214
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas38

Many societies stress communicative practice in their models of the social world. In Anakalang, Sumba, the process of marriage negotiation helps constitute and display the value of social identities and relations. In this "scene of negotiation," ritual speech performance formalizes discrete speech participant roles and separates voice from agency. The scene implicitly portrays interaction as risky, with a potential for failure to which the very forms of interaction may themselves contribute

Agency (philosophy · Negotiation · Process (computing · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Social Psychology