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Signifying Serpents and Mardi Gras Runners: Representing Identity in Selected Souths (Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings)
Celeste Ray
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Hardcover. These case studies explore how competing interests among the keepers of a community's heritage shape how the community both regards itself and reveals itself to others. Editor(s): Ray, Celeste; Lassiter, Luke Eric. Series: Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings. Num Pages: 138 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; JFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
These case studies explore how competing interests among the keepers of a community's heritage shape how that community both regards itself and reveals itself to others. As editors Celeste Ray and Luke Eric Lassiter note in their introduction, such stakeholders are no longer just of the community itself but are now often ""outsiders"" - tourists, the mass media, and even anthropologists and folklorists. The setting of each study is a different marginalized community in the South. Arranged around three themes that have often surfaced in debates about public folklore and anthropology over the last two decades, the studies consider issues ... Read more
These case studies explore how competing interests among the keepers of a community's heritage shape how that community both regards itself and reveals itself to others. As editors Celeste Ray and Luke Eric Lassiter note in their introduction, such stakeholders are no longer just of the community itself but are now often ""outsiders"" - tourists, the mass media, and even anthropologists and folklorists. The setting of each study is a different marginalized community in the South. Arranged around three themes that have often surfaced in debates about public folklore and anthropology over the last two decades, the studies consider issues ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Series
Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings
Number of Pages
138
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820324715
SKU
V9780820324715
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About Celeste Ray
Celeste Ray is an assistant professor of anthropology at The University of the South. She is the author of Highland Heritage and editor of Southern Heritage on Display. Luke Eric Lassiter, an associate professor of anthropology at Ball State University, is the author of Anthropology and coauthor of The Jesus Road.
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