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Title:

Social performance : symbolic action, cultural pragmatics, and ritual / edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Bernhard Giesen, Jason L. Mast.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xv, 374 : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Culture.
Performative (Philosophy)
Action theory.
Symbolism (Psychology)
Cognition and culture.
Symbolic interactionism.
Sociaal handelen.
Symboliek.
Riten.
Culture--Aspect sociologique.
Performatif (Philosophie)
Action, Théorie de l'
Symbolisme (Psychologie)
Cognition et culture.
Interactionnisme symbolique.
Performance.
Cultura.
Antropologia cultural e social.
Indústria cultural.

Other Authors:

Alexander, Jeffrey C., 1947-
Giesen, Bernhard, 1948-
Mast, Jason L.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Symbolic action in theory and practice : the cultural pragmatics of symbolic action / Jeffrey C. Alexander and Jason L. Mast -- Cultural pragmatics : social performance between ritual and strategy ; From the depths of despair : performance, counterperformance, and "September 11" / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- The cultural pragmatics of event-ness : the Clinton/Lewinsky affair / Jason L. Mast -- Social dramas, shipwrecks, and cockfights : conflict and complicity in social performance / Isaac Reed -- Performing a "new" nation : the role of the TRC in South Africa / Tanya Goodman -- Performing opposition or, how social movements move / Ron Eyerman -- Politics as theatre : an alternative view of the rationalities of power / David E. Apter -- Symbols in action : Willy Brandt's kneefall at the Warsaw memorial / Valentin Rauer -- The promise of performance and the problem of order / Kay Junge -- Performance art / Bernhard Giesen -- Performing the sacred : a Durkheimian perspective on the performative turn in the social sciences / Bernhard Giesen.

Series:

Cambridge cultural social studies

ISBN:

9780521674621
052167462X (pbk.)
9780521857956
0521857953 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)62132936

LCCN:

2006298282

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)