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Record Nr.

UNISA996217311603316

Titolo

Recasting ritual : performance, media, identity / / edited by Felicia Hughes-Freeland and Mary M. Crain

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

1-134-73986-9

1-134-73987-7

0-203-45978-4

1-280-05779-3

0-203-45079-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 p.)

Collana

European Association of Social Anthropologists

Altri autori (Persone)

Hughes-FreelandFelicia <1954->

CrainMary M <1953-> (Mary Markwell)

Disciplina

306.4

Soggetti

Rites and ceremonies

Ritual

Ritual in mass media

Performance

Ethnopsychology

Identity (Psychology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Clowns, dignity and desire: on the relationship between performance, identity and reflexivity; From temple to television: the Balinese case; Performances of masculinity in a Maltese festa; Nomadic performance; peculiar culture? 'Exotic' ethnic performances of WoDaaBe nomads of Niger; Making persons in a global ritual? Embodied experience and free-floating symbols in Olympic sport; Reimagining identity, cultural production and locality under transnationalism: performances of San Juan in the Ecuadorean Andes

Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 underpinni