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Ritual Textuality cost estimating laid bare for all toA classic question in studies of ritual is how ritual performances achieve or fail to achieve their effects. In this pathbreaking book, Matt Tomlinson argues that participants condition their own expectations of ritual success by interactively creating distinct textual patterns of sequence, conjunction, contrast, and substitution. Drawing on long term research in Fiji, Ritual Textuality presents in depth studies of each of these patterns, taken from a