| Description |
xl, 294 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Power of the Bizarre / David Parkin -- Ch. 1. Cultural Performance, Authenticity, and Second Nature / F. G. Bailey -- Ch. 2. Political Ritual and the Public Sphere in Contemporary West Africa / Sandra T. Barnes -- Ch. 3. Beyond Cultural Performance: Women, Culture and the State in Contemporary Nigerian Politics / Ifi Amadiume -- Ch. 4. The Bantu Botatwe: Changing Political Definitions in Southern Zambia / Elizabeth Colson -- Ch. 5. The Fusion of Identities: Political Passion and the Poetics of Cultural Performance among British Pakistanis / Pnina Werbner -- Ch. 6. Commensality as Cultural Performance: the Struggle for Leadership in an Igbo Village / O. A. C. Anigbo -- Ch. 7. Migrating Cultural Performances: The Urhobo among the Ikale-Yoruba, Ondo State, Nigeria / Onigu Otite -- Ch. 8. On Avoidance / P. H. Gulliver -- Ch. 9. Fighting with Operas: Processionals, Politics, and the Spectre of Violence in Rural Hong Kong / James L. Watson |
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Introduction: The Power of the Bizarre / David Parkin -- Ch. 1. Cultural Performance, Authenticity, and Second Nature / F. G. Bailey -- Ch. 2. Political Ritual and the Public Sphere in Contemporary West Africa / Sandra T. Barnes -- Ch. 3. Beyond Cultural Performance: Women, Culture and the State in Contemporary Nigerian Politics / Ifi Amadiume -- Ch. 4. The Bantu Botatwe: Changing Political Definitions in Southern Zambia / Elizabeth Colson -- Ch. 5. The Fusion of Identities: Political Passion and the Poetics of Cultural Performance among British Pakistanis / Pnina Werbner -- Ch. 6. Commensality as Cultural Performance: the Struggle for Leadership in an Igbo Village / O. A. C. Anigbo --Ch. 7. Migrating Cultural Performances: The Urhobo among the Ikale-Yoruba, Ondo State, Nigeria / Onigu Otite --Ch. 8. On Avoidance / P. H. Gulliver -- Ch. 9. Fighting with Operas: Processionals, Politics, and the Spectre of Violence in Rural Hong Kong / James L. Watson |
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Ch. 10. Cultural Performance and the Reproduction of the Anaguta Symbolic Universe / Adrian Collett -- Ch. 11. Dance and the Cosmology of Confidence / Paul Spencer -- Ch. 12. Possession and Dispossession: Changing Symbolic Structures and Meanings in Contemporary Nigeria / Renee Pittin -- Ch. 13. Cultural Performance and Economic-Political Goals: an Ethnographic Study of Blacksmiths in Kano (Northern Nigeria) / Philip J. Jaggar -- Ch. 14. Pilgrims and Genies: A Case Study in the Liminality and Masquerade Politics of Cultural Performance, from the History of Islam in West Africa, c. 1500 / Humphrey J. Fisher -- Ch. 15. A Cultural Given and a Hidden Influence: Koranic Teachers in Kano / J. A. McIntyre |
| Summary |
"The line between what is regarded by people as 'traditional' and 'modern' is constantly being altered by new configurations of power. These essays examine the ways in which such changes are both commuicated and created through cultural performances in diverse ethnographic settings. Examples are drawn from a wide range of forms and expressions: divinatory sequences, spirit possession rites, state ceremonials, village feasts, pilgrimages, language-use and craft specialisms."--Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Culture -- Philosophy.
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Ethnology -- Philosophy.
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Rites and ceremonies.
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Symbolic anthropology.
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| Author |
Caplan, Lionel.
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Fisher, Humphrey J.
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Parkin, David J.
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| LC no. |
95026832 |
| ISBN |
1571818987 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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1571819258 (paper : alk. paper) |
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