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communication and cognitive pluralism in a spirit possession event in Malaysia
Author(s) -
ACKERMAN S. E.,
LEE RAYMOND L. M.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1981.8.4.02a00080
Subject(s) - possession (linguistics) , malay , sociology , reciprocal , cognition , epistemology , social psychology , psychology , philosophy , linguistics , neuroscience
This study is concerned with how diverse definitions of spirit possession events in a factory are organized into predictable equivalence structures. A model of communication is utilized to show how information about possession is exchanged through reciprocal role behaviors at the primary level and through interpretive accounts at the secondary level. This approach emphasizes the complex processes involved in the communication of possession events. [Malay culture, spirit possession, communication]