Recasting Ritual: Performance, Media, Identity / Edition 1

by Mary M. Crain, Felicia Hughes-Freeland

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415182799
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/03/1998
Series:	European Association of Social Anthropologists
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mary M. Crain, Felicia Hughes-Freeland

Table of Contents

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