ISBN:
0521857953
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052167462X
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9780521857956
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9780521674621
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xv, 374 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Cambridge cultural social studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Social Performance : Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Performative (Philosophy)
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Culture
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Jeffrey C. Alexander brings together new and leading contributors to make a powerful and coherently argued case for a new direction in cultural sociology, one that focuses on the intersection between performance, ritual and social action. This is a path-breaking volume that makes a major contribution to the field
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Introduction: symbolic action in theory and practice: the cultural pragmatics of symbolic action; 1 Cultural pragmatics: social performance between ritual and strategy; 2 From the depths of despair: performance, counterperformance, and "September 11"; 3 The cultural pragmatics of event-ness: the Clinton/Lewinsky Affair; 4 Social dramas, shipwrecks, and cockfights: conflict and complicity in social performance; 5 Performing a "new" nation: the role of the TRC in South Africa
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Performing opposition or, how social movements move7 Politics as theatre: an alternative view of the rationalities of power; 8 Symbols in action: Willy Brandt's kneefall at the Warsaw Memorial; 9 The promise of performance and the problem of order; 10 Performance art; 11 Performing the sacred: a Durkheimian perspective on the performative turn in the social sciences; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511616839
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