{"title":"Parity lost","authors":"Marla Perkins","doi":"10.1075/ld.00116.per","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n Following Bakhtin (e.g., [1999] 1984, 184), dialogue studies have\n assumed at least some form of parity between dialogic participants. But what happens when parity is significantly disrupted or\n lost entirely? In this report of cultural practice among the Hobongan living on the island of Borneo, I examine the results of\n lost parity on traditional Hobongan and Christian-influenced cultural practices. The Hobongan typically acknowledge the lack of\n parity and ignore it, or they accept the lack of parity and try to rejoin polyphony through conversion. Syncretism presents a more\n complex case because dialogue remains possible: both Hobongan and Christian-influenced practices are combined to avoid unpleasant\n dialogues.","PeriodicalId":244145,"journal":{"name":"When Dialogue Fails","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"When Dialogue Fails","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00116.per","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Following Bakhtin (e.g., [1999] 1984, 184), dialogue studies have
assumed at least some form of parity between dialogic participants. But what happens when parity is significantly disrupted or
lost entirely? In this report of cultural practice among the Hobongan living on the island of Borneo, I examine the results of
lost parity on traditional Hobongan and Christian-influenced cultural practices. The Hobongan typically acknowledge the lack of
parity and ignore it, or they accept the lack of parity and try to rejoin polyphony through conversion. Syncretism presents a more
complex case because dialogue remains possible: both Hobongan and Christian-influenced practices are combined to avoid unpleasant
dialogues.