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Kings for Three Days - The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival (Hardcover, New)
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Kings for Three Days - The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival (Hardcover, New)
Series: Interp Culture New Millennium
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With its rich mix of cultures, European influences, colonial
tensions, and migration from bordering nations, Ecuador has long
drawn the interest of ethnographers, historians, and political
scientists. In this book, Jean Muteba Rahier delivers a highly
detailed, thought-provoking examination of the racial, sexual, and
social complexities of Afro-Ecuadorian culture, as revealed through
the annual Festival of the Kings. During the Festival, the people
of various villages and towns of Esmeraldas--Ecuador's province
most associated with blackness--engage in celebratory and parodic
portrayals, often donning masks, cross-dressing, and disguising
themselves as blacks, indigenous people, and whites, in an obvious
critique of local, provincial, and national white, white-mestizo,
and light-mulatto elites. Rahier shows that this festival, as
performed in different locations, reveals each time a specific
location's perspective on the larger struggles over identity,
class, and gender relations in the racial-spacial order of
Esmeraldas, and of the Ecuadorian nation in general.
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