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Pageants and processions : images and idiom as spectacle /

Nowadays pageants often take the form of parades of effervescent young women competing for popular recognition in hyped up media events. However, these "beauty pageants" are a mere pastiche of the elaborate historical parades of the medieval period that took significant, social, religious,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Du Toit, Herman C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Makers of meaning : plays and processions in goddess cults of the Near East / Michelle Wimber
  • The holiest day : the rituals of Yom Kippur as sacred procession / David Nielsen
  • From marketplace to Mount Carmel : eastern pageantry and the spectacle of folk religion on the Bay of Naples / Elliott Wise
  • Painted processions : the Victorian fascination with Christian and pagan ritual / Rita Wright
  • The pageants of power and society in the Republic of Venice / Marino Zorzi
  • Processions in Burgundy : late-medieval ceremonial entries / Jesse D. Hurlbut
  • Eluelie : an Aowin renewal celebration / Patricia Coronel
  • An Asafo Fante funeral : the final procession of life / Michael Coronel
  • Double-entendre : Mussorgsky's "pictures at an exhibition" as pageant and procession / Jerry L. Jaccard
  • The Scottish National War Memorial : a pageant in stone and glass / Rachel Grover
  • Private tribute, public art : The masque of the golden bowl and the artistic beginnings of American pageantry / Annelise K. Madsen
  • Performing the national body : murals and pageants at the turn of the twentieth century / Sarah J. Moore
  • Pageants of nineteenth century American queens / Rosella Mamoli
  • The pageant people : a Latter-day Saint appropriation of an art form / Claudia Bushman.