| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 189 pages) |
| Contents |
1. Special Events and Everyday Life -- 2. Play as Performance -- 3. Rituals and Ritual-like Genres -- 4. Performative Processes: Types of P/p relations -- 5. Embodiment, Emplacement, and Cultural Process -- 6. Problems in Performance and Cultural Theory |
| Summary |
Contemporary life in most large-scale societies is not truly cultural, in the strong sense, but rather merely 'culture-like.' Using a semeiotic phenomenological approach based on the work of philosopher C.S. Peirce, Lewis presents a framework for understanding performative events in any cultural life-world. By revisiting Victor Turner's work on ritual and engaging with those who have built upon his ideas, the book presents a program for making connections between intimate embodied habits and major cultural practices in a given social setting. Beginning with a distinction between special events and everyday life, Lewis examines fundamental event types including play, ritual, work, and carnival |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
EBL |
| Subject |
Culture -- Semiotic models.
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Folklore -- Performance.
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Rites and ceremonies.
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Manners and customs.
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Cultural Characteristics
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customs (social concepts)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Culture -- Semiotic models
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Folklore -- Performance
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Manners and customs
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Rites and ceremonies
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Evenementen.
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Gebruiken.
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Culturele bewegingen.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137342386 |
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1137342382 |
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