Matt Tomlinson has conducted anthropological research in Fiji since 1996, focusing on the intersections of culture, language, ritual, and politics. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2002, he taught for three years at Bowdoin College, and then became a lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He is currently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Anthropology at The Australian National University in Canberra.

• Table of Contents ; List of Figures ; Preface and Acknowledgments ; 1. Into Motion ; 2. The Holy Ghost Is About to Fall ; 3. Crossed Signs ; 4. Happy Deaths Are Public Deaths ; 5. A Chorus of Assent Will Lift Us All ; 6. Full Stop ; Notes ; Bibliography

Overall, this is an intriguing and meticulous study, developed over years of fieldwork, which brings together widely differing social practices in a compelling account of ritual movements. Tomlinson convincingly proposes entextualization as the right intellectual tool to account for the shifting and repeating patterns which we find in ritual performances of various kinds, and performs effective close readings of ritual situations in the process.

Matt Tomlinson has conducted anthropological research in Fiji since 1996, focusing on the intersections of culture, language, ritual, and politics. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2002, he taught for three years at Bowdoin College, and then became a lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He is currently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Anthropology at The Australian National University in Canberra.

• Table of Contents ; List of Figures ; Preface and Acknowledgments ; 1. Into Motion ; 2. The Holy Ghost Is About to Fall ; 3. Crossed Signs ; 4. Happy Deaths Are Public Deaths ; 5. A Chorus of Assent Will Lift Us All ; 6. Full Stop ; Notes ; Bibliography

Overall, this is an intriguing and meticulous study, developed over years of fieldwork, which brings together widely differing social practices in a compelling account of ritual movements. Tomlinson convincingly proposes entextualization as the right intellectual tool to account for the shifting and repeating patterns which we find in ritual performances of various kinds, and performs effective close readings of ritual situations in the process.

Matt Tomlinson has conducted anthropological research in Fiji since 1996, focusing on the intersections of culture, language, ritual, and politics. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2002, he taught for three years at Bowdoin College, and then became a lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He is currently an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Anthropology at The Australian National University in Canberra.

• Table of Contents ; List of Figures ; Preface and Acknowledgments ; 1. Into Motion ; 2. The Holy Ghost Is About to Fall ; 3. Crossed Signs ; 4. Happy Deaths Are Public Deaths ; 5. A Chorus of Assent Will Lift Us All ; 6. Full Stop ; Notes ; Bibliography

Overall, this is an intriguing and meticulous study, developed over years of fieldwork, which brings together widely differing social practices in a compelling account of ritual movements. Tomlinson convincingly proposes entextualization as the right intellectual tool to account for the shifting and repeating patterns which we find in ritual performances of various kinds, and performs effective close readings of ritual situations in the process.