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

The festive state : race, ethnicity, and nationalism as cultural performance / David M. Guss.

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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Main Author: Guss, David M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
Since 1958
Popular culture > Venezuela.
Festivals > Venezuela.
Folklore > Performance > Venezuela.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Festivals
Folklore > Performance
Popular culture
Social conditions
Feesten.
Nationalisme.
Etnisch bewustzijn.
Venezuela > Social conditions > 1958-
Venezuela
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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.

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