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The Festive State - Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism as Cultural Performance (Paperback)
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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 a collective
consciousness, is contentious and often subversive," and "The
Festive State" is an eye-opening guide to its workings. Guss
investigates "the ideology of tradition," combining four case
studies in a radical multisite ethnography to demonstrate how in
each instance concepts of race, ethnicity, history, gender, and
nationhood are challenged and redefined.
In a narrative as colorful as the events themselves, Guss presents
the Afro-Venezuelan celebration of San Juan, the "neo-Indian" Day
of the Monkey, the "mestizo" ritual of Tamunangue, and the cultural
policies and products of a British multinational tobacco
corporation. All these illustrate the remarkable fluidity of
festive behavior as well as its importance in articulating
different cultural interests.
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