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This is a guide to the workings of festive behaviour, often seen as the uniform expression of a collective consciousness. The book combines four case studies in multisite ethnography to demonstrate how concepts of race, ethnicity, history, gender, and nationhood are challenged and redefined.

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Variations on a Venezuelan Quartet 2. The Selling of San Juan: The Performance of History in an Afro-Venezuelan Community 3. "Indianness" and the Construction of Ethnicity in the Day of the Monkey 4. "Full Speed Ahead with Venezuela": The Tobacco Industry, Nationalism, and the Business of Popular Culture 5. From Village Square to Opera House: Tamunangue and the Theater of Domination Notes Bibliography Index

The Festive State

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 02/01/2001
      ISBN13: 9780520223318, 978-0520223318
      ISBN10: 0520223314
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This is a guide to the workings of festive behaviour, often seen as the uniform expression of a collective consciousness. The book combines four case studies in multisite ethnography to demonstrate how concepts of race, ethnicity, history, gender, and nationhood are challenged and redefined.

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Variations on a Venezuelan Quartet 2. The Selling of San Juan: The Performance of History in an Afro-Venezuelan Community 3. "Indianness" and the Construction of Ethnicity in the Day of the Monkey 4. "Full Speed Ahead with Venezuela": The Tobacco Industry, Nationalism, and the Business of Popular Culture 5. From Village Square to Opera House: Tamunangue and the Theater of Domination Notes Bibliography Index

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