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Miska, Maxine.

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The dramatic structure of a hakka seance: On being convinced.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The dramatic structure of a hakka seance: On being convinced./
Author:	Miska, Maxine.
Description:	266 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-05, Section: A, page: 1724.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International51-05A.
Subject:	Folklore. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9026611

The dramatic structure of a hakka seance: On being convinced.
Miska, Maxine.

The dramatic structure of a hakka seance: On being convinced. - 266 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-05, Section: A, page: 1724.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1990.

This is a case study of the use of language in seances among a Hakka-speaking Chinese group in Taiwan. Three questions are investigated: how the use of language in a ritual contributes to its efficacy; how various genres of folklore interact in a major rite of passage; and how the belief orientation of the participants influences the outcome of the ritual.Subjects--Topical Terms:

528224
Folklore.

The dramatic structure of a hakka seance: On being convinced.
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500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-05, Section: A, page: 1724.
500 $a Supervisor: Dan Ben-Amos.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1990.
520 $a This is a case study of the use of language in seances among a Hakka-speaking Chinese group in Taiwan. Three questions are investigated: how the use of language in a ritual contributes to its efficacy; how various genres of folklore interact in a major rite of passage; and how the belief orientation of the participants influences the outcome of the ritual.
520 $a The investigation is based on a detailed discourse analysis of two seances performed on different occasions for one family. In only one of the seances was the spirit medium successful in contacting the world of the dead. The seances are examined through a sociolinguistic analysis of the discourse and a textual analysis of the dead person's message to the living. One funeral ritual dwelt upon during the seance--breaking the blood bowl--is also analyzed, focusing on the distinction between men's and women's rituals.
520 $a The results of the analysis show that the differences between the successful and unsuccessful seance did not lie in the structure of the discourse, but in how the ritual had been framed--public event with official guests or private family gathering comprised largely of women.
520 $a However, the structure of discourse within the seance frame did function to alter the status and source of information, allowing family data gathered by the medium before the seance to reemerge during the ritual as new information from the dead.
520 $a Various conflicting voices surface during the seance, embodied in distinct folklore genres representing the contrast between rituals controlled by men and those controlled by women. The concerted effort of ritual also masks a wide variety of belief orientations and degrees of satisfaction with the spirit medium's performance, which are expressed only after the conclusion of the ritual through personal experience narratives.
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