title: Rituals of Madness in the Practices of Place.
abstract: While completing a PhD in literature with a focus on the practices of physical and linguistic spaces, I was also working and sleeping (on call) at a dilapidated house in a poorer part of Bristol in case I was needed by one of five paranoid or clinically psychotic residents. I gave out medication in the morning, then went home to study in a small rented room. I began to see ritual everywhere--in my professors' routines; my own habits; the behaviours of the mentally ill patients. This paper is the story of a number of madnesses and the problems with reading ritual performance in everything we do.
authors.affiliation: University of Victoria, 3800 Finnerty Rd, Victoria, BC, V8P 5C2, Canada. joelnathanaelhawkes@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Joel
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hawkes
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D002562:Ceremonial Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders
keywords: Boundaries; Everyday practice; Language; Madness; Performance; Ritual; Schizophrenia