The Cultural Politics of Nationalism and Nation-Building (eBook, ePUB)

Ritual and performance in the forging of nations
Redaktion: Tsang, Rachel; Woods, Eric Taylor

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The role of performance and rituals is central to the study of nationalism and ethnicity. This book explores, debates and evaluates the role of rituals and performances in the emergence, persistence and transformation of nations, nationalisms and national identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134592081
• Artikelnr.: 39704074

Autorenporträt

Rachel Tsang is an analyst for the UK Government. She received her Ph.D in Government from the London School of Economics, UK. Eric Taylor Woods is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of East London, UK, and Faculty Fellow of the Centre for Cultural Sociology at Yale University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Ritual and performance in the study of nations and nationalism Eric
Taylor Woods and Rachel Tsang PART I: APPROACHES 2. The rites of nations:
elites, masses and the re-enactment of the 'national past' Anthony D. Smith
3. National holiday commemorations: the view from below John E. Fox 4.
Time-bubbles of nationalism: dynamics of solidarity ritual in lived time
Randall Collins 5. Competition as ritual and the legitimation of the
liberal nation-state Jonathan Hearn PART II: APPLICATIONS 6. Ritual in the
early Louvre Museum Carol Duncan 7. Inventing or reviving the Greek ideal?
Forging the regeneration of the French nation in the art of Paul Cézanne
after the Franco-Prussian War Athena S. Leoussi 8. The nation's shrine":
conflict and commemoration at Yasukuni, modern Japan's shrine to the war
dead John Breen 9. Collective Action and National Identity: The Rally to
Restore Sanity Rachel D. Hutchins 10. Britons in Maoriland: narratives of
identity during the 1901 Royal visit to New Zealand Christopher McDonald