Publications

Publication details [#3086]

Enninger, Werner and Joachim Raith. 1982. An ethnography-of-communication approach to ceremonial situations. A study on communication in institutionalized social contexts: The Old Order Amish church service. Franz Steiner Verlag. xii + 104 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

church | old order amish | ritual

Annotation

Description of the overt behavior of the participants in Old Order Amish 'regular' church services (as opposed to services including passage rites) intended to capture the corresponding set of rules for the socially appropriate construction and interpretation of messages characteristic for the event in question.

Reviewed by

Lindenfeld, Jacqueline. 1983. Review of $An ethnography-of-communication approach to ceremonial situations. A study on communication in institutionalized social contexts: The Old Order Amish church service.