Recasting Ritual: Performance, Media, Identity

Book Overview

Recasting Ritual explores how ritualized action diversifies in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts. The contributors look at how issues such as globalisation and technology affect ritual performance and how minorities often utilise performances to affirm their own identites while also speaking to outsiders.

The contributors examine the relationship between ritual meaning and social identity through case-studies drawn...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415182808
• ISBN13: 9780415182805
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"