| Recasting Ritual: Performance, Media, Identity Contributor(s): Crain, Mary M. (Editor), Hughes-Freeland, Felicia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415182808 ISBN-13: 9780415182805 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $22.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1998 Annotation: i Recasting Ritual /i explores how ritualized action diversifies in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts. The contributors look at how issues such as globalization and technology affect ritual performance and how minorities often utilize performances to affirm their own identities while also speaking to outsiders. br br 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 underpinnings of social action affirms the independence of anthropology as a discipline from cultural, media and performance studies, according it a distinctive role in elucidating contemporary and emergent human conditions. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 306.4 |
| LCCN: 98029700 |
| Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.39" W x 8.41" (0.59 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 underpinnings of social action affirms the independence of anthropology as a discipline from cultural, media and performance studies, according it a distinctive role in elucidating contemporary and emergent human conditions. |