Ritual Communication in a Traditional Population of Eastern Indonesia

在这个项目中，两名研究人员将研究仪式 印度尼西亚传统的岛民之间的表演。 利用视频记录技术， 记录视觉和语言的区别 在这些仪式中的沟通，并分析 通过向参与者展示录像带， 其他文化的成员，让他们评论， 分析仪式。 然后，PI将返回美国， 把他们的电影剪辑成一个更简短、更连贯的画面， 仪式，然后回到现场展示他们的视觉 向参加者和其他成员介绍仪式的“模式” 的文化进行评论、分析和讨论。 这 “递归”的方法分析的通信内容， 仪式是创新的，应该产生重大成果。 这项研究很重要，因为仪式的意义， 参与者是一个复杂的，难以研究的事情;然而， 仪式定义了人们的身份，是文化的关键项目， 分析. 这项研究将开发一个互动的， 一种基于录像带的方法， 通过对仪式的分析， 印度尼西亚社会。

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.