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Stavrianopoulou, Eftychia

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“…Dance is defined as "a specific kind of intentional, performative motor behaviour" (Stavrianopoulou 2006). Together with music, dance belongs to the non-verbal elements transmitted primarily orally and aurally (Gladigow 2004).…”

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Defining Pag-Ipat: A Multimodal Semiotic Analysis of Maguindanaon’s Healing Ritual

Traspe

2024

IJAPS

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Pag-ipat (ritual against disease) is a traditional healing ritual of the Maguindanaon people in the southern Philippines. Devoid of Islamic components, it is based on numerous ideas such as possession, invisible spirits, mythological history, and the offering of sacrifice. This study explores the signs and symbols incorporated in pagipat. Through a multimodal semiotic analysis, specifically ethnographic observation, this research determines the meanings conveyed by the semiotic resources used, expounds on how semiotic resources are orchestrated to communicate meaning, and rationalises the ideology expressed in the ritual performance. Findings reveal that the resources utilised in the performance of pag-ipat communicate gratitude and love, recognition, honour, appreciation, journey, generosity, kindness, recognition of their ancestor, invitation to the neighbours and the community, healing, enlightenment, freedom from darkness, identity marker, greediness, and life. Through the manner of installing the pandala (flags), the presence of the sambulayang (set of flags), the quantity of food, the quality of the cloth, the number of days spent in the ritual, the design of the food and clothing material, the dance movement of the medium, and the kulintang music produced by the performers, the healing rite manifests social standing and artistic skill of the performers. The practise of pag-ipat tells us that regardless of Maguindanaon’s observance of Islam as official religion, some believe in the existence of ancestral spirits, mythological entities, and spirit animals which has a significant impact on their beliefs and behaviour. Thus, ritual elements increase signification and meaning-making potentials in the discourse environment because of their iconicity, indexicality, and meaning-making potentiality.

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Defining Pag-Ipat: A Multimodal Semiotic Analysis of Maguindanaon’s Healing Ritual

Traspe

2024

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“…Pilz (2011), 151, however, analyzes performative aspects of ritual that set it apart from routine activity. See also Stavrianopoulou (2013), 7f., for the ways that rituals embody and communicate messages.…”

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The Gift of Identity: (Re)presenting Autochthony in Classical Athens

Clements¹

2021

Ramus

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The Athenians of the fifth century BCE both created and were captivated by an unusual and memorable concept that provided citizens with an ancestry that was closely linked to the very earth they inhabited: autochthony. Although autochthony in classical Athens has been studied extensively, the methodology of viewing the myth as a representation of a ritual and performative act has not been widely considered. This paper reflects upon autochthony from the angle of its ceremonial (re)presentation, considering how iconography helped shape a concrete and specific understanding of Athenian civic identity, including familial ties with the gods and eponymous ancestors. By situating fifth-century visual representations in vase painting as the most effective conduit for what autochthony meant, we can better understand its power as a visual action that replicates a ritual gift.

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Material Culture and Ritual: State of the Question

Elsner¹

2012

Architecture of the Sacred

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Defining Pag-Ipat: A Multimodal Semiotic Analysis of Maguindanaon’s Healing Ritual

Defining Pag-Ipat: A Multimodal Semiotic Analysis of Maguindanaon’s Healing Ritual

The Gift of Identity: (Re)presenting Autochthony in Classical Athens

Material Culture and Ritual: State of the Question

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