ISBN:
0415182808
,
0415182794
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vi, 168 p)
,
23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2005 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Parallel Title:
Print version Recasting Ritual : Performance, Media, Identity
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Ritual
;
Rites and ceremonies
;
Ethnopsychology
;
Identity (Psychology)
;
Ritual in mass media
;
Performance
Abstract:
Recasting Ritual, uses worldwide case studies to explore how ritualized action changes in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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