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Author:   Matt Tomlinson (Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Anthropology, The Australian National University in Canberra) ,  Julian Millie (Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow in the Anthropology Program, Monash School of Social Sciences, Monash University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.444kg
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9780190652814

ISBN 10:   0190652810
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   17 May 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction - Imagining the Monologic - Matt Tomlinson Chapter 1 Cultural Replication: The Source of Monological and Dialogical Models of Culture Greg Urban Chapter 2 Dialogic Prophecies and Monologic Vision Jon Bialecki Chapter 3 Monologue and Dialogism in Highland New Guinea Verbal Art Alan Rumsey Discussion Is It Monologic? Is It Dialogic? What Difference Does It Make? Don Kulick Chapter 4 With Unity We Will Be Victorious! : A Monological Poetics of Political Conscientization within the Cuban Revolution. Kristina Wirtz Chapter 5 From Neighborhood Talk to Talking for the Neighborhood Zane Goebel Chapter 6 Monologue and Authority in Iran: Ethnic and Religious Heteroglossia in the Islamic Republic James Barry Discussion Diving into the Gap: Words, Voices, and the Ethnographic Implications of Linguistic Disjuncture. Krista E. Van Vleet Chapter 7 Acting with One Voice: Producing Unanimism in Algerian Reformist Theater Jane E. Goodman Chapter 8 Creedal Monologism and Theological Articulation in the Mennonite Central Committee Philip Fountain Chapter 9 The Public Metaculture of Islamic Preaching Julian Millie Discussion The Monologic Imagination of Social Groups Courtney Handman Conclusion Religious and Political Terrain of the Monologic Imagination

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Matt Tomlinson is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Australian National University. Since the mid-1990s, he has conducted research on culture, language, and ritual in Pacific Islands societies. He is the coeditor of several volumes and the author of two books, In God's Image: The Metaculture of Fijian Christianity (2009) and Ritual Textuality: Pattern and Motion in Performance (Oxford, 2014). Julian Millie is Associate Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Anthropology at Monash University. He has completed research on Islamic practice in Indonesia and on the genres of Islamic culture in the region. He has published two books: Bidasari: Jewel of Malay Muslim Culture (2004) and Splashed by the Saint: Ritual Reading and Islamic Sanctity in West Java (2009).

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