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The festive state : race, ethnicity, and nationalism as cultural performance / David M. Guss.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Guss, David M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--Venezuela.
- Popular culture.
- Festivals--Venezuela.
- Festivals.
- Folklore--Performance--Venezuela.
- Folklore.
- Venezuela--Social conditions--1958-1999.
- Venezuela.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- If, as David Guss argues, culture is a contested terrain with constantly changing contours, then festivals are its battlegrounds, where people come to fight and dispute in large acts of public display. Festive behavior, long seen by anthropologists and folklorists as the ""uniform expression of a collective consciousness, is contentious and often subversive,"" and The Festive State is an eye-opening guide to its workings.
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Variations on a Venezuelan Quartet; Chapter 2. The Selling of San Juan; Chapter 3 Indianness and the Construction of Ethnicity in the Day of the Monkey; Chapter 4. ``Full Speed Ahead with Venezuela'; Chapter 5. From Village Square to Opera House; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-229) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-520-92486-X
- 1-59734-615-2
- OCLC:
- 49570121
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