The limits of meaning : case studies in the anthropology of Christianity / edited by Matthew Engelke and Matt Tomlinson.
Contributor(s): Engelke, Matthew Eric
| Tomlinson, Matt | American Anthropological Association. Annual meeting (101st : 2002 : New Orleans)
Language: English Publisher: New York, Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2006.Description: vii, 239p. ; 23cm.ISBN: 1845451708DDC classification: 306.6'3-dc22 | Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Papers originally presented at the 2002 meetings of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, in a session entitled : Christian ritual and the limits of meaning.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
When silence isn't golden: charismatic speech and the limits of literalism / Simon Coleman; Clarity and charisma: on the uses of ambiguity in ritual life / Matthew Engelke; Rituals without final acts: Zimbabwe's humanitarian work / Erica Bornstein; Nationalism and millenarianism in West Papua / Danilyn Rutherford; The limits of meaning in Fijian Methodist sermons / Matt Tomlinson; Converting meanings and the meanings of conversion in Samoan moral economies / Ilana Gershon; Dusty signs and roots of faith: the limits of Christian meaning in Highland Bolivia / Andrew Orta; Paranomics: on the semiotics of sacral action / James D. Faubion; Afterword: on limits, ruptures, meaning and meaninglessness / Joel Robbins.
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