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.
Additional ISBNs
9781280057793, 9780415182799, 1280057793, 0415182794
Recasting Ritual Ebook
Performance, Media, Identity
By: Mary M. Crain
Publisher:
Routledge
Print ISBN: 9780415182805, 0415182808
eText ISBN: 9781134739868, 1134739869
Edition: 1st
Pages: 176
Copyright year: 1998
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