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- Convenors:
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Jesus Federico Hernandez
(University of the Philippines)
Mary Josefti Nito (University of Asia Pacific)
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- Discussant:
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Laurent Fournier
(University Cote d'Azur)
- Format:
- Panel
Short Abstract:
Rituals have been written from the view of the other and become the dominant lens through which cultures are perceived. This panel seeks to inquire new understanding of these rituals based on experiences on the ground & by reading the unwritten text in rituals and in the peripheries of the accounts.
Long Abstract:
Rituals may be viewed as ethnographic texts through which the participants make sense of the world and communicate this information to both fellow participants and observers. Writing about the participated or observed rituals imbues the writer with the authority of one who voices "the native", having obtained knowledge firsthand through immersion in the culture. Historical accounts, explorations, and travelogues become unintentional ethnographies as they describe rituals and lifeways encountered in completely different cultures and may become the dominant lens by which those cultures are perceived. This panel seeks to inquire and extract new understanding from these rituals based on experiences from the ground and by ‘reading’ the unwritten text in rituals and in the peripheries of the accounts.
This Panel has so far received 2 paper proposal(s).
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