Ritual, performance, media / edited by Felicia Hughes-Freeland.

Based on papers first presented at the ASA Conference, held at the University of Wales, Swansea, in Mar. 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Theatre as a site of passage : some reflections on the magic of acting / Kirsten Hastrup -- 2. Performing pilgrimage : Walsingham and the ritual construction of irony / Simon Coleman and John Elsner -- 3. Ritual, performance and media in urban contemporary shrine configurations in Benin City, Nigeria / Charles Gore -- 4. From ritualization to performativity : the Concheros of Mexico / Susanna Rostas -- 5. Perspectives towards ballet performance : exploring, repairing and maintaining frames / Helena Wulff -- 6. From ritual sacrifice to media commodity : anthropological and media constructions of the Spanish bullfight and the rise of women performers / Sarah Pink -- 7. 'An oes heddwch?' Contesting meanings and identities in the Welsh National Eisteddfod / Charlotte Aull Davies -- 8. Macedonian culture and its audiences : an analysis of Before the rain / Keith Brown -- 9. Hard sell : commercial performance and the narration of the self / Nigel Rapport -- 10. Problematizing performance / Edward L. Schieffelin -- 11. Bound and unbound entities : reflections on the ethnographic perspectives of anthropology vis-à-vis media and cultural studies / Eric Hirsch.

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