RITUEL INTERAKTION OG ILLUSION: En relationel tilgang
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7146/ta.v0i41.107472Resumé
By providing an explicitly formal account of
three ethnographic examples – the Naven rite
of the Iatmul (Papua New Guinea),
Amerindian shamanism as illustrated by the
Kuna (Panama), and African male initiation
among the Wagania (Democratic Republic of
Congo) – the authors outline a “relational”
approach to the analysis of ritual action.
They suggest that the illusion implied by the
effectiveness of ritual action derives not
from the inherent nature of the items of
behaviour involved, but from the particular
kind of internal consistency that is imposed
by the interactive context in which they
occur. Thus, the singular realities constructed
through ritual performances are built up
and sustained, neither by their functional or
semantic properties nor by their syntactic
features (for example repetition or
fragmentation), nor by qualities depending
on pragmatic considerations (performativity,
staging procedures, etc.). Rather, they are
constructed primarily by the establishment
of a particular type of relational configuration.
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