02993nam 22007693u 450 991045457690332120210114071510.00-520-92486-X1-59734-615-2(CKB)111056485634756(EBL)224207(OCoLC)49570121(SSID)ssj0000154322(PQKBManifestationID)11158249(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000154322(PQKBWorkID)10406815(PQKB)11753096(MiAaPQ)EBC224207(EXLCZ)9911105648563475620130418d2000|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Festive State[electronic resource] Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism As Cultural PerformanceBerkeley University of California Press20001 online resource (254 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-20289-9 Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Variations on a Venezuelan Quartet; Chapter 2. The Selling of San Juan; Chapter 3 Indianness and the Construction of Ethnicity in the Day of the Monkey; Chapter 4. ``Full Speed Ahead with Venezuela'; Chapter 5. From Village Square to Opera House; Notes; Bibliography; IndexIf, as David Guss argues, culture is a contested terrain with constantly changing contours, then festivals are its battlegrounds, where people come to fight and dispute in large acts of public display. Festive behavior, long seen by anthropologists and folklorists as the ""uniform expression of a collective consciousness, is contentious and often subversive,"" and The Festive State is an eye-opening guide to its workings.FestivalsFestivals - VenezuelaFolklorePopular culturePopular culture - VenezuelaVenezuela-- Social conditions-- 1958-Popular culturePerformanceVenezuelaFestivalsVenezuelaFolkloreVenezuelaSociology & Social HistoryHILCCSocial ConditionsHILCCSocial SciencesHILCCElectronic books.Festivals.Festivals - Venezuela.Folklore.Popular culture.Popular culture - Venezuela.Venezuela-- Social conditions-- 1958-.Popular culturePerformanceFestivalsFolkloreSociology & Social HistorySocial ConditionsSocial Sciences306/.0987394.26Guss David M718390AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910454576903321The Festive State2286607UNINA