Based on papers first presented at the ASA Conference, held at the University of Wales, Swansea, in Mar. 1996. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Bound and unbound entities : reflections on the ethnographic perspectives of anthropology vis-à-vis media and cultural studies / Eric Hirsch. Performing pilgrimage : Walsingham and the ritual construction of irony / Simon Coleman and John Elsner -- Ritual, performance and media in urban contemporary shrine configurations in Benin City, Nigeria / Charles Gore -- From ritualization to performativity : the Concheros of Mexico / Susanna Rostas -- Perspectives towards ballet performance : exploring, repairing and maintaining frames / Helena Wulff -- From ritual sacrifice to media commodity : anthropological and media constructions of the Spanish bullfight and the rise of women performers / Sarah Pink -- 'A oes heddwch?' Contesting meanings and identities in the Welsh National Eisteddfod / Charlotte Aull Davies -- Macedonian culture and its audiences : an analysis of Before the rain / Keith Brown -- Hard sell : commercial performance and the narration of the self / Nigel Rapport -- Problematizing performance / Edward L. Schieffelin -- Bound and unbound entities : reflections on the ethnographic perspectives of anthropology vis-à-vis media and cultural studies / Eric Hirsch.
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