Books written by Matt Tomlinson
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Ritual Textuality: Pattern and Motion in Performance
London: John Stephens. Waterhouse, Joseph. 1997 [1866]. The King and People of Fiji. Auckland: Pasifika Press. Waterhouse, Joseph. n.d. History of Fiji. Unpublished MS, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington. Webb, A. J. 1870.
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Social Formations of Wonder: Anthropology and Awe
Myth is commonly contrasted with rationality and with philosophy, and as such has much in common with wonder. ... Moreover, 'Only wonder's attentiveness to the uncanniness of the everyday might stir us out of our unthinking ...
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New Mana: Transformations of a Classic Concept in Pacific Languages and Cultures
One need only look at the obituaries in Mana Magazine to recognize that tāne are eulogized for their sporting feat. (Hokowhitu 2004: 269–70) Vince Diaz, in his discussion of American gridiron or football, similarly describes this ...
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Christian Politics in Oceania
The contributors to this volume address Christian politics in both senses and argue that Christianity is always and inevitably political in the Pacific Islands.
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God Is Samoan: Dialogues between Culture and Theology in the Pacific
In this pathbreaking book, Matt Tomlinson engages in an anthropological conversation with the work of “contextual theologians,” exploring how the combination of Pacific Islands culture and Christianity shapes theological dialogues.
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Ritual Textuality: Pattern and Motion in Performance
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.
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Ritual Textuality: Pattern and Motion in Performance
How do rituals achieve their effects? Matt Tomlinson approaches this classic question from a new angle, arguing that participants condition their own expectations of ritual success by interactively creating distinct textual patterns.
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Christian Politics in Oceania
... Papua New Guinea: Do Their Philosophies Complement or Contradict Each Other?” Pacific Studies 11, no. 2: 83–96. Liep, John. 2009. A Papuan Plutocracy: Ranked Exchange on Rossel Island. Langelandsgade, Denmark: Aarhus University Press ...