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The politics of cultural performance

Title
  1. The politics of cultural performance / edited by David Parkin, Lionel Caplan, Humphrey Fisher.
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  1. Providence, RI : Berghahn Books, 1996.

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Additional authors
  1. Parkin, David J., 1940-
  2. Caplan, Lionel.
  3. Fisher, Humphrey J.
Description
  1. xl, 294 p. : map; 23 cm.
Subject
  1. Ethnology > Philosophy
  2. Culture > Philosophy
  3. Symbolic anthropology
  4. Rites and ceremonies
  5. Ethnology > Africa
Contents
  1. The power of the bizarre / David Parkin -- Political ritual and the public sphere in contemporary West Africa / Sandra T. Barnes -- Beyond cultural performance : women, culture and the state in contemporary Nigerian politics / Ifi Amadiume -- The Bantu Botatwe : changing political definitions in southern Zambia / Elizabeth Colson -- The fusion of identities : political passion and the poetics of cultural performance among British Pakistanis / Pnina Werbner -- Commensality as cultural performance : the struggle for leadership in an Igbo village / O.A.C. Anigbo -- Migrating cultural performances : The Urhobo among the Ikale-Yoruba, Ondo State, Nigeria / Onigu Otite -- On avoidance / P.H. Gulliver -- Fighting with operas : processionals, politics, and the spectre of violence in rural Hong Kong / James L. Watson -- Cultural performance and the reproduction of the Anaguta symbolic universe -- Dance and the cosmology of confidence / Paul Spencer -- Possession and dispossession : changing symbolic structures and meanings in contemporary Nigeria / Renée Pittin -- Cultural performance and economic-political goals : an ethnographic study of blacksmiths in Kano / Philip J. Jaggar -- Pilgrims and genies : a case study in the liminality and masquerade politics of cultural performance, from the history of Islam in West Africa / Humphrey J. Fisher -- A cultural given and a hidden influence : Koranic teachers in Kano / J.A. McIntyre.
Call number
  1. Sc D 96-619
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Title
  1. The politics of cultural performance / edited by David Parkin, Lionel Caplan, Humphrey Fisher.
Imprint
  1. Providence, RI : Berghahn Books, 1996.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Added author
  1. Parkin, David J., 1940-
  2. Caplan, Lionel.
  3. Fisher, Humphrey J.
LCCN
  1. 95026832
ISBN
  1. 1571818987 (cloth : alk. paper)
  2. 1571819258 (paper : alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. Sc D 96-619
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