Tournament Rituals, Category Dynamics, and Field Configuration: The Case of the Booker Prize

作者: N. Anand , Brittany C. Jones

DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-6486.2008.00782.X

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摘要: In this article we theorize the ways in which tournament rituals, form of prominent industry award ceremonies, configure organizational fields. We review field theory to distil four criteria field-configuring mechanisms should conform. undertake an archival study Booker Prize for Fiction explore how ritual has configured contemporary English-language literature by championing distinctive category post-colonial fiction.

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