1st Edition
Rituality and Social (Dis)Order The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe
By Alessandro Testa
Copyright 2021
234 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
234 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
234 Pages
14 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Carnival has been described as one of the foundational elements of European culture, bearing an emblematic and iconic status as the festive phenomenon par excellence . Its origins are partly obscure, but its stratified and complex history, rich symbolic diversity, and sundry social configurations make it an exceptional object of cultural analysis.
The product of more than 12 years of... Read more
1. A Theory of Popular Culture from the South
2. A Critical Model of European Carnival
3. The Elusive Origins of Carnival
4. Ritual Inversions, Cultural Hegemony, and the Structure of the Conjuncture
Biography
Alessandro Testa is a Research Fellow in Anthropology at the Institute of Sociological Studies, Charles University, Prague.
