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Celebrations of Identity: Multiple Voices in American Ritual Performance
Pamela R. Frese
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Hardback. This collection of essays celebrates the cultural diversity of the US as it is articulated through ritual performance. It presents ways in which people perpetuate their cultural identity, and invokes the state of critical self-awareness that is increasingly enlisted in multicultural discourse. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 551.
This volume celebrates the cultural diversity of the United States as it is articulated through ritual performance. It presents the diverse ways in which people choose to validate and perpetuate their cultural identity. The collection of essays invokes the state of critical self-awareness that is increasingly enlisted in multicultural discourse. This volume is an important addition to the literature on ritual in America and will be useful to anthropologists, sociologists, and researchers in social sciences and humanities because it explores all dimensions of ritual experience and provides new visions of American identity expressed through formalized festive events.
This volume celebrates the cultural diversity of the United States as it is articulated through ritual performance. It presents the diverse ways in which people choose to validate and perpetuate their cultural identity. The collection of essays invokes the state of critical self-awareness that is increasingly enlisted in multicultural discourse. This volume is an important addition to the literature on ritual in America and will be useful to anthropologists, sociologists, and researchers in social sciences and humanities because it explores all dimensions of ritual experience and provides new visions of American identity expressed through formalized festive events.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780897893350
SKU
V9780897893350
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About Pamela R. Frese
PAMELA R. FRESE is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Wooster in Ohio. She has coedited Transcending Boundaries (Bergin & Garvey, 1991), a multidisciplinary approach to the study of gender.
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