The Festive State [[electronic resource] ] : Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism As Cultural Performance

• Autore: Guss David M
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2000
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Disciplina: 306/.0987; 394.26
• Soggetto topico: Festivals; Festivals - Venezuela; Folklore; Popular culture; Popular culture - Venezuela; Venezuela-- Social conditions-- 1958-; Popular culture - Performance - Venezuela; Folklore - Venezuela; Sociology & Social History; Social Conditions; Social Sciences
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: If, 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Festive State
• ISBN: 0-520-92486-X; 1-59734-615-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454576903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II