Social performance : symbolic action, cultural pragmatics, and ritual / edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Bernhard Giesen, Jason L. Mast.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alexander, Jeffrey C., 1947-

Giesen, Bernhard, 1948-2020.

Mast, Jason L.

Series:

Cambridge cultural social studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture.

Performative (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xv, 374 : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Contents:

Introduction: symbolic action in theory and practice: the cultural pragmatics of symbolic action / Jeffrey C. Alexander, Jason L. Mast 1

1 Cultural pragmatics: social performance between ritual and strategy / Jeffrey C. Alexander 29

2 From the depths of despair: performance, counterperformance, and "September 11" / Jeffrey C. Alexander 91

3 The cultural pragmatics of event-ness: the Clinton/Lewinsky affair / Jason L. Mast 115

4 Social dramas, shipwrecks, and cockfights: conflict and complicity in social performance / Isaac Reed 146

5 Performing a "new" nation: the role of the TRC in South Africa / Tanya Goodman 169

6 Performing opposition or, how social movements move / Ron Eyerman 193

7 Politics as theatre: an alternative view of the rationalities of power / David E. Apter 218

8 Symbols in action: Willy Brandt's kneefall at the Warsaw Memorial / Valentin Rauer 257

9 The promise of performance and the problem of order / Kay Junge 283

10 Performance art / Bernhard Giesen 315

11 Performing the sacred: a Durkheimian perspective on the performative turn in the social sciences / Bernhard Giesen 325.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521857953

052167462X

OCLC:

62132936

Publisher Number:

9780521857956 (hbk.)

9780521674621 (pbk.)