• DOI:10.1016/J.LANGCOM.2004.03.002
Corpus ID: 144493025

Liminal meanings: sexually charged Giriama funerary ritual and unsettled participant frameworks

@article{Mcintosh2005LiminalMS,
  title={Liminal meanings: sexually charged Giriama funerary ritual and unsettled participant frameworks},
  author={J. Mcintosh},
  journal={Language & Communication},
  year={2005},
  volume={25},
  pages={39-60}
}

J. Mcintosh

Published 2005

Sociology

Language & Communication

Abstract This article analyzes women's obscenity in Giriama funerary songs, and argues that the unresolved meaning of these songs can be characterized in terms of the contests over their participant frameworks. I begin by suggesting a distinction between metapragmatically explicit rituals with clearly established participant frameworks, and metapragmatically opaque rituals characterized by ambiguous and potentially resistant liminal behavior that tends to lack a clear participant framework. The… CONTINUE READING

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