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The festive state : race, ethnicity, and nationalism as cultural performance /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Guss, David M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • "Indianness" and the construction of ethnicity in the Day of the Monkey
  • "Full speed ahead with Venezuela" : the tobacco industry, nationalism, and the business of popular culture
  • From village square to opera house : Tamunangue and the theater of domination.