1st Edition

Ritual, Performance, Media

Edited By Felicia Hughes-Freeland Copyright 1998
248 Pages
by Routledge

244 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

Ritual, Performance and Media are significant areas of study which are essential to anthropology and are often surprisingly overlooked. This book brings a more anthropological perspective to debates about media consumption, performativity and the characteristics of spectacle which have transformed cultural studies over the past decade.

1. Cultural Creativity on Stage 2. Rituals of Concheros Indians in Mexico 3. Christian Pilgrimages to Walsingham 4. Rituals in Shrines in Benin and Nigeria 5. Bullfighting in Cordoba 6. The Performance of the Welsh National Eisteddfod 7. Television in Bali and Ballet Performance

Biography

Felicia Hughes-Freeland