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Joseph Roach reveals how performance can revise the unwritten past, comparing patterns of remembrance and forgetting in how communities forge their identities and imagine their futures. He examines the syncretic performance traditions of Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the urban sites of London and New Orleans.

Table of Contents
Preface to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: History, Memory, and Performance
2. Echoes in the Bone
3. Betterton’s Funeral
4. Feathered Peoples
5. One Blood
6. Carnival and the Law
Epilogue: New Frontiers
References
Index

Cities of the Dead

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      Publisher: Columbia University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/11/2021
      ISBN13: 9780231203876, 978-0231203876
      ISBN10: 023120387X
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      Anthropology Cultural studies

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Joseph Roach reveals how performance can revise the unwritten past, comparing patterns of remembrance and forgetting in how communities forge their identities and imagine their futures. He examines the syncretic performance traditions of Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the urban sites of London and New Orleans.

      Table of Contents
      Preface to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
      Preface
      Acknowledgments
      1. Introduction: History, Memory, and Performance
      2. Echoes in the Bone
      3. Betterton’s Funeral
      4. Feathered Peoples
      5. One Blood
      6. Carnival and the Law
      Epilogue: New Frontiers
      References
      Index

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