Recasting Ritual - Performance, Media, Identity (Hardcover)

Recasting Ritual explores how ritual behaviour changes in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts. The contributors from Spain, Sweden, Norway and the UK examine how globalization and technology affect ritual performance.
Wide ranging examples based on original research from the Pacific, Europe, East and West Africa, Latin America and Indonesia illustrate the relationships between ritual and social identity.
These include:
* how married Muslim women in Kenya admire new brides in a style influenced by US soap operas
* how the Olympic Winter Games in Norway contrasted the femininity of the athletic cross-country skier with the fragile figure skater
* how shoulder callouses from carrying statues in rituals are a prestigious form of identity for Catholic men in Malta.
The book includes a thorough introduction which puts the chapters in context and brings out their implications and importance for anthropology.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	European Association of Social Anthropologists
Release date:	September 1998
First published:	1999
Editors:	Mary M. Crain • Felicia Hughes-Freeland
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-18279-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN:	0-415-18279-4
Barcode:	9780415182799

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