ISBN:
9780415870641
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (216 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Cultural Politics of Nationalism and Nation-Building : Ritual and performance in the forging of nations
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Rituals and performances are a key theme in the study of nations and nationalism. With the aim of stimulating further research in this area, this book explores, debates and evaluates the role of rituals and performances in the emergence, persistence and transformation of nations, nationalisms and national identity.The chapters comprising this book investigate a diverse array of contemporary and historical phenomena relating to the symbolic life of nations, from the Yasukuni Shrine in Japan to the Louvre in France, written by an interdisciplinary cast of world-renowned and up-and-comi
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; The Cultural Politics of Nationalism and Nation-Building; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Ritual and performance in the study of nations and nationalism; Part I Approaches; 2 The rites of nations: elites, masses and the re-enactment of the 'national past'; 3 National holiday commemorations: the view from below; 4 Time-bubbles of nationalism: dynamics of solidarity ritual in lived time; 5 Competition as ritual and the legitimation of the liberal nation state; Part II Applications
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Ritual in the early Louvre Museum7 Inventing or reviving the Greek ideal? Forging the regeneration of the French nation in the art of Paul Cézanne after the Franco-Prussian War; 8 'The nation's shrine': conflict and commemoration at Yasukuni, modern Japan's shrine to the war dead; 9 Collective action and national identity: the rally to restore sanity; 10 Britons in Maoriland: narratives of identity during the 1901 royal visit to New Zealand; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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