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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
©2000.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780520924864 052092486X 0585389942 9780585389943 0520202899 9780520202894 0520223314 9780520223318 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Variations on a Venezuelan quartet
- The selling of San Juan : the performance of history in an Afro-Venezuelan community
- "Indianness" and the construction of ethnicity in the Day of the Monkey
- "Full speed ahead with Venezuela" : the tobacco industry, nationalism, and the business of popular culture
- From village square to opera house : Tamunangue and the theater of domination.