The festive state :: race, ethnicity, and nationalism as cultural performance /

If, as David Guss argues, culture is a contested terrain with constantly changing contours, then festivals are its battlegrounds, where people come to fight and dispute in large acts of public display. Festive behavior, long seen by anthropologists and folklorists as the "uniform expression of...

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1. Verfasser: Guss, David M.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2000.
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Zusammenfassung:If, as David Guss argues, culture is a contested terrain with constantly changing contours, then festivals are its battlegrounds, where people come to fight and dispute in large acts of public display. Festive behavior, long seen by anthropologists and folklorists as the "uniform expression of a collective consciousness, is contentious and often subversive," and The Festive State is an eye-opening guide to its workings
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-229) and index.
ISBN:9780520924864
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9780585389943
0520202899
9780520202894
0520223314
9780520223318