The future of ritual Book

I find Schechner's "Performance Theory" (not exactly an indie pick) an endlessly useful text for generating ideas, and was excited to read some of his other work. The two long descriptions of performance events in India and Java are interesting, but not terribly analytic--I just didn't find there was much there in excess of a narrative description of the events happening. I feel like the big theoretical payoff promised by the last chapter, which is called "The Future of Ritual," never really happens.