Delegated voice

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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2466433
AutoresW Keane (0000-0003-4981-7030, University of Michigan, autor correspondente)
Ano1991
Volume18
Fascículo2
Páginas311-330
Data de publicação1991-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/ae.1991.18.2.02a00070
OpenAlexW2070307214
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências 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