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- Title
Inscribing the Miraculous Place: Writing and Ritual Communication in the Chapel of a Guatemalan Popular Saint.
- Authors
Knowlton, Timothy W.
- Abstract
The analysis of ritual in linguistic anthropology has witnessed significant advances in recent years, particularly those approaches which theorize ritual as fundamentally semiotic and ritual actions being composed of different kinds of sign relations across multiple modalities. Building on Silverstein's (2009) analysis of the interdiscursive chains of signification linking private and public rituals, this article examines how writing in the form of votive text-artifacts is used by Guatemalan devotees to a popular saint as a public metasemiotic index substantiating the successful performance of their private ritual encounters, contributing to our broader understanding of writing's semiotic potential in ritual communication.
- Subjects
ANTHROPOLOGICAL linguistics; SEMIOTICS; GUATEMALAN literature; GUATEMALANS; RITES &; ceremonies
- Publication
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 2015, Vol 25, Issue 3, p239
- ISSN
1055-1360
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jola.12100