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"""The product of long experience with Fijian life, closely observed, this volume brings together an impressively diverse range of phenomena. With clear and direct prose, Tomlinson sorts through the complexities of religion and politics to offer us a compelling and original theory of ritual."" --Webb Keane, George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan ""In Ritual Textuality, Matt Tomlinson presents a provocative study of varieties of ritual performance in contemporary Fiji, one that resonates with seminal anthropological works that have explored how ritual patterns establish and reproduce religious authority... His insightful analysis reveals a method of locating language ideology in several contexts, and demonstrates for the Fijian case how ritual performance articulates with structures of power."" --Pacific Affairs"

The product of long experience with Fijian life, closely observed, this volume brings together an impressively diverse range of phenomena. With clear and direct prose, Tomlinson sorts through the complexities of religion and politics to offer us a compelling and original theory of ritual. --Webb Keane, George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan

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Matt Tomlinson has conducted anthropological research in Fiji since 1996, focusing on the intersections of culture, language, ritual, and politics. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2002, he taught at Bowdoin College, and then became a lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He is currently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Anthropology at The Australian National University in Canberra.

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