1st Edition
Recasting Ritual Performance, Media, Identity
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Mary M. Crain, Felicia Hughes-Freeland
