Celebrations of Identity

Multiple Voices in American Ritual Performance
Herausgeber: Frese, Pamela R.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780897893350
• ISBN-10: 0897893352
• Artikelnr.: 21923775

Autorenporträt

Pamela R. Frese

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney Acknowledgments Introduction by Pamela R.
Frese Observing Meaning: Ritual Criticism, Interpretation, and
Anthropological Fieldwork by Madeline Duntley American Eskimos Celebrate
the Whale: Structural Dichotomies and Spirit Identities Among the Inupiat
of Alaska by Edith Turner Sauerkraut and Souvlakia: Ethnic Festivals as
Performances of Identity by John M. Coggeshall Individual and Community in
a Protestant Symbolic World: Presbyterian Belief, Ritual, and Experience in
the American South by Gwen Kennedy Neville The Ritual of Testifying in the
Black Church by Jon Michael Spencer Powwows, Parades, and Social Drama
Among the Waccamaw Sioux by Patricia B. Lerch Anglo-American Mortuary
Complex and Cultural Heritage by Pamela R. Frese Ritual Cycles of Exchange:
The Process of Cultural Creation and Management in the U.S. Borderlands by
Carlos G. Vélèz Ibáñez Ethnic Celebrations in Rural California:
Punjabi-Mexicans and Others by Karen Leonard Fishing and Drinking in Kodiak
by Rachel Mason Coronation in San Antonio: Class, Family, and the
Individual by Michaele Thurgood Haynes The Ritual Cycle of the American
Monarch by J.R. McLeod Index About the Contributors