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His Very Silence Speaks addresses larger issues such as the human
relationship to animals and nature, cross-cultural differences in
the ways animals are perceived, and the symbolic use of living and
legendary animals in human cognition and communication.
Rodeo people call their sport "more a way of life than a way to
make a living." Rodeo is, in fact, a rite that not only expresses a
way of life but perpetuates it, reaffirming in a ritual contest
between man and animal the values of American ranching society.
Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence uses an interpretive approach to analyze
rodeo as a symbolic pageant that reenacts the "winning of the West"
and as a stylized expression of frontier attitudes toward man and
nature. Rodeo constestants are the modern counterparts of the
rugged and individualistic cowboys, and the ethos they inherited is
marked by ambivalence: they admire the wild and the free yet desire
to tame and conquer.
Based on extensive field work and drawing on comparative materials
from other stock-tending societies, "Rodeo" is a major contribution
to an understanding of the role of performance in society, the
culturally constructed view of man's place in nature, and the
structure and meaning of social relationships and their
representations.
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