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Ritual, performance, media / edited by Felicia Hughes-Freeland.

Contributor(s): Hughes-Freeland, Felicia, 1954- | Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth. Conference (1996 : University College of Swansea)
Material type: TextTextSeries: A.S.A. monographs: 35.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998Description: x, 233 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415163382 (pbk.); 0415163374Subject(s): Rites and ceremonies -- Congresses | Performing arts -- Congresses | Mass media -- CongressesDDC classification: 306.4 LOC classification: GN473 | .R593 1998Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Theatre as a site of passage : some reflections on the magic of acting / Kirsten Hastrup -- Performing pilgrimage : Walsingham and the ritual construction of irony / Simon Coleman and John Elsner -- Ritual, performance and media in urban contemporary shrine configurations in Benin City, Nigeria / Charles Gore -- From ritualization to performativity : the Concheros of Mexico / Susanna Rostas -- Perspectives towards ballet performance : exploring, repairing and maintaining frames / Helena Wulff -- From ritual sacrifice to media commodity : anthropological and media constructions of the Spanish bullfight and the rise of women performers / Sarah Pink -- 'A oes heddwch?' Contesting meanings and identities in the Welsh National Eisteddfod / Charlotte Aull Davies -- Macedonian culture and its audiences : an analysis of Before the rain / Keith Brown -- Hard sell : commercial performance and the narration of the self / Nigel Rapport -- Problematizing performance / Edward L. Schieffelin -- Bound and unbound entities : reflections on the ethnographic perspectives of anthropology vis-à-vis media and cultural studies / Eric Hirsch.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West GN473 .R593 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182902280060

Based on papers first presented at the ASA Conference, held at the University of Wales, Swansea, in Mar. 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theatre as a site of passage : some reflections on the magic of acting / Kirsten Hastrup -- Performing pilgrimage : Walsingham and the ritual construction of irony / Simon Coleman and John Elsner -- Ritual, performance and media in urban contemporary shrine configurations in Benin City, Nigeria / Charles Gore -- From ritualization to performativity : the Concheros of Mexico / Susanna Rostas -- Perspectives towards ballet performance : exploring, repairing and maintaining frames / Helena Wulff -- From ritual sacrifice to media commodity : anthropological and media constructions of the Spanish bullfight and the rise of women performers / Sarah Pink -- 'A oes heddwch?' Contesting meanings and identities in the Welsh National Eisteddfod / Charlotte Aull Davies -- Macedonian culture and its audiences : an analysis of Before the rain / Keith Brown -- Hard sell : commercial performance and the narration of the self / Nigel Rapport -- Problematizing performance / Edward L. Schieffelin -- Bound and unbound entities : reflections on the ethnographic perspectives of anthropology vis-à-vis media and cultural studies / Eric Hirsch.

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