Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 A Theory of Popular Culture From the South -- 1.1 Popular Culture: A Theory From the South -- 1.2 Folklore Fades Out. . . -- 1.3 . . . Cultural Circ...

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Main Author: Testa, Alessandro (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Milton Taylor & Francis Group 2020
In:Year: 2020
Series/Journal:Routledge Studies in Cultural History Ser. v.98
Further subjects:B Electronic books
B Masks-Symbolic aspects-Europe
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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: 9780367617226
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Summary:Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 A Theory of Popular Culture From the South -- 1.1 Popular Culture: A Theory From the South -- 1.2 Folklore Fades Out. . . -- 1.3 . . . Cultural Circulation and Hegemony Remain: Concluding Remarks -- 2 A Critical Model of European Carnival -- 2.1 European Popular Carnival: A Model -- 2.2 The "Carnivalesque" -- 2.3 Masks and Masking -- 2.4 Feasting and Binging, Waste and Unproductiveness -- 2.5 The Trial, the Scapegoat, and Door-to-Door Processions -- 3 The Elusive Origins of Carnival -- 3.1 Ritual Transvestism, Zoomorphism, and the Prehistory of Carnival in Late Antique and Early Medieval Times -- 3.2 Ancient Predecessors and the Methodological Conundrum -- 3.3 The "Religion of Carnival," the Shamanic Hypothesis, and More Methodological Conundra -- 4 Ritual Inversions, Cultural Hegemony, and the Structure of the Conjuncture -- 4.1 The Inversions of Carnival (in Rome, for Example) -- 4.2 Three Interpretative Models (With Reflections on Revolts and Revolutions) -- 4.3 Cultural Hegemony, Resignation, and Dehistorification (and More Case Studies) -- 4.4 Rituality, (Anti-)Structural Events, and the Oblique Politics of Carnival -- 4.5 Final Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index.
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ISBN:1000223728