Celebrations of Identity

Multiple Voices in American Ritual Performance

Inbunden, Engelska, 1993

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Beskrivning

This volume celebrates the cultural diversity of the United States as it is articulated through ritual performance. It presents the diverse ways in which people choose to validate and perpetuate their cultural identity. The collection of essays invokes the state of critical self-awareness that is increasingly enlisted in multicultural discourse. This volume is an important addition to the literature on ritual in America and will be useful to anthropologists, sociologists, and researchers in social sciences and humanities because it explores all dimensions of ritual experience and provides new visions of American identity expressed through formalized festive events.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1993-10-30
Mått:156 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:567 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780897893350

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

PAMELA R. FRESE is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Wooster in Ohio. She has coedited Transcending Boundaries (Bergin & Garvey, 1991), a multidisciplinary approach to the study of gender.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyAcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Pamela R. FreseObserving Meaning: Ritual Criticism, Interpretation, and Anthropological Fieldwork by Madeline DuntleyAmerican Eskimos Celebrate the Whale: Structural Dichotomies and Spirit Identities Among the Inupiat of Alaska by Edith TurnerSauerkraut and Souvlakia: Ethnic Festivals as Performances of Identity by John M. CoggeshallIndividual and Community in a Protestant Symbolic World: Presbyterian Belief, Ritual, and Experience in the American South by Gwen Kennedy NevilleThe Ritual of Testifying in the Black Church by Jon Michael SpencerPowwows, Parades, and Social Drama Among the Waccamaw Sioux by Patricia B. LerchAnglo-American Mortuary Complex and Cultural Heritage by Pamela R. FreseRitual Cycles of Exchange: The Process of Cultural Creation and Management in the U.S. Borderlands by Carlos G. Vélèz IbáñezEthnic Celebrations in Rural California: Punjabi-Mexicans and Others by Karen LeonardFishing and Drinking in Kodiak by Rachel MasonCoronation in San Antonio: Class, Family, and the Individual by Michaele Thurgood HaynesThe Ritual Cycle of the American Monarch by J.R. McLeodIndexAbout the Contributors