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Format: Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 272
Utgivningsdatum: 2011-01-25
Förlag: Indiana University Press
Illustrationer: 21 b&w illustrations
Dimensioner: 234 x 158 x 22 mm
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ISBN: 9780253355577

Masquerade and Postsocialism

Ritual and Cultural Dispossession in Bulgaria

av Gerald W Creed

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011-01-25

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Gerald W. Creed analyzes contemporary mumming rituals in rural Bulgaria for what they reveal about life after socialism--and the current state of post-socialist studies. Mumming rituals have flourished in the post-Soviet era. Elaborately costumed dancers go from house to house demanding sustenance and bestowing blessings. Through the analysis of these rites, Creed critiques key themes in post-socialist studies, including understandings of civil society and democracy, gender and sexuality, autonomy and community, and ethnicity and nationalism. He argues that these events reveal indigenous cultural resources that could have been used both practically and intellectually to ease the post-socialist reconstruction of Bulgarian society, but were not.

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"Masterfully investigates the contemporary performance of distinctive ... mumming rites as a means of interrogating post-socialism... [A]ccessible, engaging, and strong." Donna Buchanan, author of Performing Democracy: Bulgarian Music and Musicians in Transition

Gerald W. Creed is Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and the City University of New York Graduate Center, where he is Executive Officer of the Anthropology Program. He is author of Domesticating Revolution: From Socialist Reform to Ambivalent Transition in a Bulgarian Village.

Introduction: Cultural Dispossession; 1. A Mumming Season; 2. Gender and Sexuality; 3. Civil Society and Democracy; 4. Autonomy and Community; 5. Ethnicity and Nationalism; Conclusion: Modernity in Drag Notes; References Cited; Index