The Monologic Imagination

Matt Tomlinson is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Australian National University. Since the mid-1990s, he has conducted research on culture, language, and ritual in Pacific Islands societies. He is the coeditor of several volumes and the author of two books, In God's Image: The Metaculture of Fijian Christianity (2009) and Ritual Textuality: Pattern and Motion in Performance (Oxford, 2014).Julian Millie is senior lecturer and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Anthropology at Monash University. He has completed research on Islamic practice in Indonesia and on the genres of Islamic culture in the region. He has published two books: Bidasari: Jewel of Malay Muslim Culture (2004) and Splashed by the Saint: Ritual Reading and Islamic Sanctity in West Java (2009).

• ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction - Imagining the Monologic - Matt TomlinsonChapter 1Cultural Replication: The Source of Monological and Dialogical Models of CultureGreg UrbanChapter 2Dialogic Prophecies and Monologic VisionJon BialeckiChapter 3Monologue and Dialogism in Highland New Guinea Verbal ArtAlan RumseyDiscussionIs It Monologic? Is It Dialogic? What Difference Does It Make?Don KulickChapter 4"With Unity We Will Be Victorious!": A Monological Poetics of Political "Conscientization" within the Cuban Revolution.Kristina WirtzChapter 5From Neighborhood Talk to Talking for the NeighborhoodZane GoebelChapter 6Monologue and Authority in Iran: Ethnic and Religious Heteroglossia in the Islamic RepublicJames BarryDiscussionDiving into the Gap: "Words," "Voices," and the Ethnographic Implications of Linguistic Disjuncture.Krista E. Van VleetChapter 7Acting with One Voice: Producing Unanimism in Algerian Reformist TheaterJane E. GoodmanChapter 8Creedal Monologism and Theological Articulation in the Mennonite Central CommitteePhilip FountainChapter 9The Public Metaculture of Islamic PreachingJulian MillieDiscussionThe Monologic Imagination of Social Groups Courtney HandmanConclusionReligious and Political Terrain of the Monologic Imagination