Recasting Ritual (eBook, PDF)

Performance, Media, Identity
Redaktion: Crain, Mary M.; Hughes-Freeland, Felicia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Recasting Ritual explores how ritualized action diversifies in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts. The contributors look at how issues such as globalisation and technology affect ritual performance and how minorities often utilise performances to affirm their own identites while also speaking to outsiders.

The contributors examine the relationship between ritual meaning and social identity through case-studies drawn from the Pacific, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean, Latin America, Indonesia, and East and West Africa. Study of the theoretical underpinnings of social action affirms the independence of anthropology as a discipline from cultural, media and performance studies, according it a distinctive role in elucidating contemporary and emergent human conditions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134739875
• Artikelnr.: 42977517

Autorenporträt

Mary M. Crain, Felicia Hughes-Freeland

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction 2 Clowns, dignity and desire: on the relationship between
performance, identity and reflexivity 3 From temple to television: the
Balinese case 4 Performances of masculinity in a Maltese festa 5 Nomadic
performance - peculiar culture? 'Exotic' performances of WoDaaBe nomads of
Niger 6 Making persons in a global ritual? Embodied experience and
free-floating symbols in Olympic sport 7 Reimagining identity, cultural
production and locality under transnationalism: performances of San Juan in
the Ecuadorean Andes