ANTC31H3 Lecture : ANTC31 Feb 1.docx
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Rappaport article: especially goes well with the article by tambaya on analogical thought. The reason they both work so well is because they both are influenced by the theories of linguistic. They both are influenced by austin <= who wrote a provocative book called doing things with words . In other words, they are proformatives acts, illiicutionary acts. He argues that particular forms of speech are especially used in rituals. Performatives are really important in rituals (recorded) There are other ways of speech that are also important. Descriptive statement of fact that can be proved either true of false. It is a language of science in some ways. They are found in ritual but are not that important to ritual. It is a question of judgement that dictates how well it went: was it a happy or an unhappy act, eg: telling somebody that you are not welcome is an unhappy act.
