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The original mediums were not texts or technologies; they were ritual actors performing acts of mediumship. Mediating between determined norms (the status quo) and emergent trends (change), they invoked divine authority to conjure meanings that proved adaptive, nonadaptive and/or maladaptive. With the advent of the written word, ritual became formalized and codified.
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- Gyori, Bradford (Author)
- Goggin, Maureen (Thesis advisor)
- Baker, Aaron (Committee member)
- Hjorleifur Jonsson (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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2011
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- Includes vita
- Partial requirement for: Ph. D., Arizona State University, 2011Note typethesis
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 352-369)Note typebibliography
- Field of study: English
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by Bradford Gyori