ISBN:
9780415182799
,
0415182794
,
9780415182805
,
0415182808
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0203450795
,
9780203450796
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (vi, 168 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Parallel Title:
Print version Recasting ritual
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Rites et cérémonies
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Rituel
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Rituel dans les médias
;
Ethnopsychologie
;
Identité (Psychologie)
;
Identity (Psychology)
;
Ritual in mass media
;
Performance
;
Ethnopsychology
;
Ritual
;
Rites and ceremonies
;
Rites and ceremonies
;
Ritual
;
Ritual in mass media
;
Performance
;
Ethnopsychology
;
Identity (Psychology)
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Ethnopsychology
;
Identity (Psychology)
;
Ritual in mass media
;
Performance
;
Rites and ceremonies
;
Ritual
;
Ethnopsychologie
;
Massenmedien
;
Ritual
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Riten
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Massamedia
;
Identiteit
;
Rites et cérémonies
;
Rites et cérémonies ; Dans les médias
;
Identité (psychologie)
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
Clowns, dignity, and desire : on the relationship between performance, identity and reflexivity / Ingjerd Hoëm -- From temple to television : the Balinese case / Felicia Hughes-Freeland -- Performances of masculinity in a Maltese festa / Jon P. Mitchell -- Nomadic performance -- peculiar culture? 'Exotic' ethnic performances of WoDaaBe nomads of Niger / Mette Bovin -- Making persons in a global ritual? Embodied experience and free-floating symbols in Olympic sport / Ingrid Rudie -- Reimagining identity, cultural production and locality under transnationalism : performances of San Juan in the Ecuadorean Andes / Mary M. Crain.
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Clowns, dignity, and desire: on the relationship between performance, identity and reflexivity / Ingjerd HoëmFrom temple to television: the Balinese case / Felicia Hughes-Freeland -- Performances of masculinity in a Maltese festa / Jon P. Mitchell -- Nomadic performance -- peculiar culture? 'Exotic' ethnic performances of WoDaaBe nomads of Niger / Mette Bovin -- Making persons in a global ritual? Embodied experience and free-floating symbols in Olympic sport / Ingrid Rudie -- Reimagining identity, cultural production and locality under transnationalism: performances of San Juan in the Ecuadorean Andes / Mary M. Crain.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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