Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and RitualTaking a cultural pragmatic approach to meaning, the contributors suggest a new way of looking at the continuum that stretches between ritual and strategic action. They do so by developing, for the first time, a model of social performance. This volume offers the first systematic and analytical framework that transforms the metaphor into a social theory and applies it to a series of facinating large scale social and cultural processes from September