Recasting ritual : performance, media, identity / edited by Felicia Hughes-Freeland and Mary M. Crain.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hughes-Freeland, Felicia, 1954-

Crain, Mary M. (Mary Markwell), 1953-

Series:

European Association of Social Anthropologists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rites and ceremonies.

Ritual.

Ritual in mass media.

Performance.

Ethnopsychology.

Identity (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-73986-9

1-134-73987-7

0-203-45978-4

1-280-05779-3

0-203-45079-5

9780203450796

OCLC:

475892996