| Description |
xiii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Variations on a Venezuelan Quartet. The Popular Terrain. Cultural Performance and the Production of Meaning. Traditionalizing the Traditional and the Ideology of Folklore. The Venezuelan Quartet -- Ch. 2. The Selling of San Juan: The Performance of History in an Afro-Venezuelan Community. San Juan Bautista. San Juan Nacional. San Juan Monumental. San Juan Cimarron. San Juan Congo -- Ch. 3. "Indianness" and the Construction of Ethnicity in the Day of the Monkey. The Performance of Ethnicity. Santo Domingo de Guzman. The Dance of the Monkey. The Feast of Fools. The Sultan of the Guarapiche -- Ch. 4. "Full Speed Ahead with Venezuela": The Tobacco Industry, Nationalism, and the Business of Popular Culture. The Origins of a Foundation. The Workshops: "Where the Past and the Future Come Together" The Image of Culture -- Ch. 5. From Village Square to Opera House: Tamunangue and the Theater of Domination. The Politics of Performance. The Choreography of Mestizaje. The Choreography of Race and the Dance of the Blacks. The Theater of Domination |
| Summary |
If, as David Guss argues, culture is a contested terrain with constantly changing contours, then festivals are its battlegrounds, where people come to fight and dispute in large acts of public display. Festive behavior, long seen by anthropologists and folklorists as the "uniform expression of a collective consciousness, is contentious and often subversive," and The Festive State is an eye-opening guide to its workings |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-229) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Festivals -- Venezuela.
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Folklore -- Performance -- Venezuela.
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Popular culture -- Venezuela.
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| SUBJECT |
Venezuela -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85142691 -- 1958-
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Venezuela -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85142691 -- 1958-1969
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Venezuela -- Social conditions -- 1958-1999. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85142692
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| LC no. |
99056890 |
| ISBN |
0520202899 (cased) |
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0520223314 (paperback) |
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