Recasting Ritual
Performance, Media, Identity
Published on 16. December 2003
176 pages
978-1-134-73987-5 (ISBN)
Description
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 underpinnings of social action affirms the independence of anthropology as a discipline from cultural, media and performance studies, according it a distinctive role in elucidating contemporary and emergent human conditions.
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 underpinnings of social action affirms the independence of anthropology as a discipline from cultural, media and performance studies, according it a distinctive role in elucidating contemporary and emergent human conditions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
10,75 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-73987-5 (9781134739875)
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Persons
Felicia Hughes-Freeland is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Wales Swansea. Mary M. Crain is Visiting Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Barcelona, Spain.
Content
1 Introduction 2 Clowns, dignity and desire: on the relationship between performance, identity and reflexivity 3 From temple to television: the Balinese case 4 Performances of masculinity in a Maltese festa 5 Nomadic performance - peculiar culture? 'Exotic' performances of WoDaaBe nomads of Niger 6 Making persons in a global ritual? Embodied experience and free-floating symbols in Olympic sport 7 Reimagining identity, cultural production and locality under transnationalism: performances of San Juan in the Ecuadorean Andes
