Through the Bamboo Thicket
The Social Process of Tabwa Ritual Performance
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 5778968 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Allen F Roberts (0000-0001-9024-1542, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 1988 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Fascículo | 2 |
| Páginas | 123-123 |
| Data de publicação | 1988-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | TDR/The Drama Review (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1054-2043 • E-ISSN: 1531-4715 |
| Editora | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1145855 |
| OpenAlex | W2315778108 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 4 |
| Referências citadas | 3 |
In processual microcosm of performance (Turner 1985:183), elements of one's chaotic, ineffable, and/or inchoate experience are found to be significant.1 Bringing about such a recognition is the of ritual. Through divination and related rituals people remember, revise, rearrange, and reconstitute elements of to understand and cope with present difficulties, so that a better future can be expected. History is not absolute. Knowledge is not immutable. Rather, understanding is an ongoing process. People have no with a capital H; instead, they engage in historization (see Davis-Roberts 1981 ). Personal past and collective tradition are invented as need arises, despite what inside informants and outside observers may say to contrary.2 As Luc de Heusch has written, history molds itself in categories of symbolic thought (1982:229). The nature of these categories-that is, of logic itself-is such that ideas and inventions appropriate to present needs often seem to have existed always. Instead, as Richard Schechner has suggested, they are restored behavior, or rebehavior (I985:36). Logic is retroactive, and in social dramas actors can compose a me that is both consistent with past and appropriate to present. This important is effected through performance, what Schechner calls twice-behaved behavior (1985:36). Squeezing 'meaning' out of an event, as Victor Turner wrote (1982:13), occurs in performances that structure standpoint and context (see Kapferer I986:I94). A study of Tabwa divination seances and sequences of action they imply reveal dynamics of society: how each new situation is understood and decisions are made. The work of ritual is serious business, as individual actors attempt to understand, cope with, and take action to redress crises of health and social welfare. People reflect upon way life is and how it works in moments of performance. They do so in heightened contexts of crises when failure to take action, or rather failure to take proper action, may lead to intense suffering, death, or destruction
| Obras citantes distintas | 4 |
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| Citações por ano | 0,13 |
| Intervalo de citações | 1996 - 2022 (27) |
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 4 |