Recasting ritual: performance, media, identity
by Crain, Mary M., (Mary Markwell) Hughes-Freeland, Felicia
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, La…
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- Full title :Recasting ritual : performance, media, identity / edited by Felicia Hughes-Freeland and Mary M. Crain.
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.
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- Publication Date:1998.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1998.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (vi, 168 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0203450795, 9780203450796, 9780415182799, 0415182794, 9780415182805, 0415182808, 0203459784, 9780203459782, 1280057793, 9781280057793, 9786610057795, 6610057796, 1134739877, 9781134739875
- DOI:10.4324/9780203450796
- oclc:ocm70765680
- LC Classification:GN473
- Dewey Decimal:306.4
Table of Contents
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.
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