Recasting ritual : performance, media, identity / / edited by Felicia Hughes-Freeland and Mary M. Crain
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| Titolo: |
Recasting ritual : performance, media, identity / / edited by Felicia Hughes-Freeland and Mary M. Crain
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (183 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Rites and ceremonies |
| Ritual | |
| Ritual in mass media | |
| Performance | |
| Ethnopsychology | |
| Identity (Psychology) | |
| Altri autori: |
Hughes-FreelandFelicia <1954->
CrainMary M <1953-> (Mary Markwell)
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| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Recasting ritual |
| ISBN: | 1-134-73986-9 |
| 1-134-73987-7 | |
| 0-203-45978-4 | |
| 1-280-05779-3 | |
| 0-203-45079-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996217311603316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
European Association of Social Anthropologists