School Ritual As Performance: A Reconstruction Of Durkheim's And Turner's Uses Of Ritual

Educational Theory

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 493-513

  Quantz, Richard A ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001084903     PISSN: 00132004     EISSN: 17415446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.1999.00493.x     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Victor Turner, The Anthropology of Performance, ed. Richard Schechner (New York: PAJ Publications, 1988), 81.
2. Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life: A Study in Religious Sociology, trans. Joseph Ward Swain (1915; reprint, New York: The Free Press, 1965).
3. See Nancy Lesko, Symbolizing Society: Stories, Rites, and Structure in a Catholic High School (New York: Palmer, 1988) and Peter McLaren, Schooling as a Ritual Performance: Towards a Political Economy of Educational Symbols and Gestures, 2d. ed. (London: Routledge, 1993).
4. Ronald L. Grimes, Ritual Criticism: Case Studies in Its Practice, Essays on its Theory, ed. Frederick M. Denny, (Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1990).
5. Jack Goody, "Religion and Ritual: The Definitional Problem," British Journal of Sociology 12 (1961): 161.
6. David I. Kertzer, Ritual Politics, and Power (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988).
7. James Middleton, "Ritual and Ambiguity in I ugbara Society" in Secular Ritual, ed. Sally F. and Barbara G. Myerhoff Moore (Assen/Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Van Gorcum, 1977), 73-90 and Richard Quantz and Peter Magolda, "Nonrational Classroom Performance: Ritual as Aspect of Action," The Urban Review 29 (1997): 221-38.
8. Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, trans. Joseph Ward Swain (New York: The Free Press, 1965), 243.
9. A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, Structure and Function in Primitive Society (Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1952) and Erving Goffman, Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-face Behavior (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1967).
10. R.A. Rappaport, "Adaptation and the Structure of Ritual" in Human Behaviour and Adaptation, ed. N. Burton Jones and V. Reynolds (London: Taylor and Francis, 1978), 86.
11. McLaren, Schooling as a Ritual Performance.
12. Lesko, Symbolizing Society.
13. Raymond Firth, Symbols: Public and Private, Symbol Myth, and Ritual Series (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1973), 167.
14. Basil Bernstein, Class, Codes, and Control: Volume 3, Towards a Theory of Educational Transmissions, in Primary Socialization, Language, and Education, ed. Basil Bernstein (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977), 54.
15. David T. Hansen, "Getting Down to Business: The Moral Significance of Classroom Beginnings, "Anthropology and Education Quarterly (1989): 263.
16. Randall Collins, Conflict Sociology: Toward an Explanatory Science (New York: Academic Press, 1975), 43.
17. W. Lloyd Warner, The Living and the Dead (New Haven: Yale University, 1959).
18. Bernstein, Basil. Class, Codes and Control, 55.
19. From Turner's introduction to Sally Falk Moore and Barbara G. Myerhoff, eds., Symbol and Politics in Communal Ideology: Cases and Questions, ed. Victor Turner (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1975), 6-7.
20. McLaren, Schooling as a Ritual Performance.
21. Arnold Van Gennep, The Rites of Passage (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975).
22. Victor Turner, "Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage," in Closed Systems and Open Minds: The Limits of Naiveté in Social Anthropology, ed. Max Gluckman (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1964), 93-111.
23. Victor Turner, ed., The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure (1969; reprint, Ithaca: Cornell University, 1977), 97.
24. Victor Turner, The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual (Ithaca: Cornell University, 1967).
25. Victor Turner, "Symbols in Ndembu Ritual" in Closed Systems and Open Minds: The Limits of Naivete in Social Anthropology, ed. Max Gluckman (1957; reprint, Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1964), 50, 21.
26. Lesko, Symbolizing Society.
27. Victor Turner, Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society, Symbol Myth, and Ritual Series (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1974), 38-41.
28. For example, see Talcott Parsons, Essays in Sociological Theory, rev. ed. (Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1954).
29. For example, see Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Savage Mind (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966).
30. Emphasis added. Turner, Symbol, Myth, and Ritual, 166-67.
31. Turner, "Symbols in Ndembu Ritual," 95.
32. Terry O'Connor, personal communication, 1995.
33. Turner, The Anthropology of Performance, 76.
34. Goffman, Interaction Ritual, 90-91.
35. Kertzer, Ritual, Politics, and Power, 5.
36. Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi, Theory and History of Literature Series, vol. 10 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1979).
37. William Shakespeare, As You Like It, act 2, scene 7, line 139 and Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959; reprint, Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 1977).
38. The idea that one might "perform" for oneself may seem strange, but imagine the nineteenth century English colonialist of literary, if not historical, reality insisting on keeping the ritual of tcatime even when all alone in the jungles of India, or the single person who maintains the practice of saying grace before eating a meal even though eating at home ail alone.
39. Quoted in Turner, The Anthropology of Performance, 74.
40. See Dean MacCanneil and Juliet Flower MacCannell, The Time of The Sign: A Semiotic Interpretation of Modern Culture, ed. Thomas A. Sebeok (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982).
41. Bernstein, Class, Codes and Control, 54.
42. Lesko, Symbolizing Society.
43. McLaren, Schooling as a Ritual Performance.
44. Moore and Myerhoff, Symbol and Politics in Communal Ideology, 8.
45. Marjorie McClellan, "Bread and Glue: Ritual and Celebration in the Lives of Four American Families," Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota, 1991.
46. Douglas E. Foley, Learning Capitalist Culture: Deep in the Heart of Tejas, ed. Dan Rose and Paul Stoller (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1990), 22-23.
47. Middleton, "Ritual and Ambiguity in Lugbara Society," 73.
48. For an elaboration of this point see Quantz and Magolda, "Nonrational Classroom Performance.".