The politics of cultural performance /
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| Imprint: | Providence, RI : Berghahn Books, 1996. |
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| Description: | xi, 294 p. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2467274 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface: A Tribute to Abner Cohen
- Select Bibliography of Works by Abner Cohen
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction The Power of the Bizarre
- Chapter 1. Cultural Performance Authenticity, and Second Nature
- Chapter 2. Political Ritual And The Public Sphere In Contemporary West Africa
- Chapter 3. Beyond Cultural Performance Women, Culture and the State In Contemporary Nigerian Politics
- Chapter 4. The Bantu Botatwe Changing Political Definitions In Southern Zambia
- Chapter 5. The Fusion of Identities Political Passion and the Poetics of Cultural Performance Among British Pakistanis
- Chapter 6. Commensality As Cultural Performance The Struggle for Leadership in an Igbo Village
- Chapter 7. Migrating Cultural Performances The Urhobo Among the Ikale- Yoruba Ondo State, Nigeria
- Chapter 8. On Avoidance
- Chapter 9. Fighting with Operas Processionals, Politics, And The Spectre of Violence in Rural Hong Kong
- Chapter 10. Cultural Performance And The Reproduction Of The Anaguta Symbolic Universe
- Chapter 11. Dance and the Cosmology Of Confidence
- Chapter 12. Possession and Dispossession Changing Symbolic Structures and Meanings In Contemporary Nigeria
- Chapter 13. Cultural Performance And Economic-Political Goals An Ethnographic Study of Blacksmiths in Kano (northern Nigeria)
- Chapter 14. Pilgrims and Genies A Case Study in the Liminality and Masquerade Politics of Cultural Performance, From The History of Islam in West Africa, C. 1500
- Chapter 15. A Cultural Given And A Hidden Influence Koranic Teachers in Kano
- Biographical Notes on Contributors
- Index