ISBN:
0415163382
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0415163374
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9780203449943
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9780415163385
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 233 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
A.S.A. monographs 35
Parallel Title:
Print version Ritual, Performance, Media
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Mass media Congresses
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Performing arts Congresses
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Rites and ceremonies Congresses
Abstract:
This collection brings an anthropological perspective to debates about media consumption, performativity and the characteristics of spectacle which have transformed cultural studies over the last decade
Note:
Based on papers first presented at the ASA Conference, held at the University of Wales, Swansea, in Mar. 1996
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Theatre as a site of passage : some reflections on the magic of acting
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Performing pilgrimage : Walsingham and the ritual construction of irony
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Ritual, performance and media in urban contemporary shrine configurations in Benin City, Nigeria
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From ritualization to performativity : the Concheros of Mexico
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Perspectives towards ballet performance : exploring, repairing and maintaining frames
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From ritual sacrifice to media commodity : anthropological and media constructions of the Spanish bullfight and the rise of women performers
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'A oes heddwch?' Contesting meanings and identities in the Welsh National Eisteddfod
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Macedonian culture and its audiences : an analysis of Before the rain
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Hard sell : commercial performance and the narration of the self
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Problematizing performance
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Bound and unbound entities : reflections on the ethnographic perspectives of anthropology vis-à-vis media and cultural studies
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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