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Ritual, Heritage and Identity The Politics of Culture and Performance in a Globalised World
326 Pages
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Routledge India
326 Pages
by
Routledge India
326 Pages
by
Routledge India
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This book explores the importance of ritual and ritual theory to discourses of authenticity and originality, thereby deepening our insight into concepts of cultural heritage, identity and nation in a globalised world. The volume is the first interdisciplinary attempt to understand the significance of rituals and related performative traditions in the creation of grounded cultural identities,... Read more
List of Plates and Figures -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Ritual, Heritage and Identity in a Globalised World/Christiane Brosius and Karin M. Polit -- Part I: Framing Heritage -- 1. Heritage in Ritual and Identity/Gregory J. Ashworth -- 2. The ‘Ritualisation of Ritual’ in the Construction of Heritage/Richard Handler -- 3. Useable Pasts — Creative Futures: How Normative Recognition Opens New Horizons for Publicly Committed Scholars/Christine M. Merkel -- 4. Performativity and Dynamics of Intangible Cultural Heritage/Christoph Wulf -- Part II: Ethnography and Practice -- 5. The Cultural Politics of Transnational Heritage Rituals: Akshardham Cultural Complex in New Delhi/Christiane Brosius -- 6. Political Patronage and Ritual Competitions at Dussehra Festival in Northern India/Daniela Berti -- 7. Heritage, Art and Elections: Popular Culture, Ritual and Political Competition in Uttarakhand/Karin M. Polit -- 8. Randala Ritual: Women’s Heritage and Identity in Gujarat, India/Purnima Shah -- 9. Synthesising Practice and Performance, Securing Recognition: Thangmi Cultural Heritage in Nepal and India/Sara Shneiderman -- 10. From ‘Wasteful Superstition’ to ‘Beautiful Tradition’: Changing Assessments of Popular Ritual in Late Socialist Vietnam/Kirsten W. Endres -- 11. Scripturalisation of Ritual in Eastern Nepal/Martin Gaenszle -- About the Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Biography
Christiane Brosius is Professor and Chair of Visual and Media Anthropology at Karl Jaspers Center of Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg, Germany.
Karin Polit is Research Associate in Anthropology at Institute for Ethnology, University of Heidelberg.
