Ritual Communication in a Traditional Population of Eastern Indonesia

在这个项目中，两名研究人员将研究印度尼西亚传统岛屿人民的仪式表演。利用录像技术，研究将记录这些仪式中视觉和语言交流的差异，并通过向参与者和其他文化成员展示录像来分析差异，让他们对仪式进行评论和分析。然后，pi将返回美国，将他们的电影编辑成一个更简短、更连贯的仪式视觉，然后返回现场，向参与者和文化的其他成员展示他们的仪式视觉“模型”，以进行评论、分析和讨论。这种分析仪式传播内容的“递归”方法是创新的，应该会产生显著的结果。这项研究很重要，因为仪式对参与者的意义是一件复杂而难以研究的事情；然而，仪式定义了人们的身份，是文化分析的关键项目。本研究将开发一种互动的、基于录像带的方法，通过分析一个印度尼西亚社会的仪式，可以促进我们对仪式的总体理解。

In this project two researchers will study ritual performances among a traditional island people of Indonesia. Using the technology of video recording, the research will document the differences between visual and verbal communication during these ceremonies, and analyze the differences by showing the videotapes to the participants and other members of the culture to have them comment on and analyze the ceremony. The PIs will then return to the US to edit their film into a briefer, more coherent vision of the ceremonies, and then return to the field to show their visual "model" of the ceremonies to the participants and other members of the culture for comment, analysis, and discussion. This "recursive" method of analyzing the communication content of the ceremonies is innovative and should produce significant results. This research is important because the meaning of rituals to participants is a complex, difficult thing to study; yet rituals define people's identity, and are key items of cultural analysis. This research will develop an interactive, videotape-based methodology which may advance our understanding of ritual in general through the analysis of ritual in one Indonesian society.