Hidden Rituals And Public Performances

Author : Anna-Leena Siikala,Ulyashev Oleg
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789522223074

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Hidden Rituals and Public Performances by Anna-Leena Siikala,Ulyashev Oleg Pdf

Why are Khanty shamans still active? What are the folklore collectives of Komi? Why are the rituals of Udmurts performed at cultural festivals? In their insightful ethnographic study Anna-Leena Siikala and Oleg Ulyashev attempt to answer such questions by analysing the recreation of religious traditions, myths, and songs in public and private performances. Their work is based on long term fieldwork undertaken during the 1990s and 2000s in three different places, the Northern Ob region in North West Siberia and in the Komi and Udmurt Republics. It sheds light on how different traditions are favoured and transformed in multicultural Russia today. Siikala and Ulyashev examine rituals, songs, and festivals that emphasize specificity and create feelings of belonging between members of families, kin groups, villages, ethnic groups, and nations, and interpret them from a perspective of area, state, and cultural policies. A closer look at post-Soviet Khanty, Komi and Udmurts shows that opportunities to perform ethnic culture vary significantly among Russian minorities with different histories and administrative organisation. Within this variation the dialogue between local and administrative needs is decisive.

Author : Anna-Leena Siikala,Oleg Ulyashev
Publisher : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789522228123

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Hidden rituals and public performances by Anna-Leena Siikala,Oleg Ulyashev Pdf

Why are Khanty shamans still active? What are the folklore collectives of Komi? Why are the rituals of Udmurts performed at cultural festivals? In their insightful ethnographic study Anna-Leena Siikala and Oleg Ulyashev attempt to answer such questions by analysing the recreation of religious traditions, myths, and songs in public and private performances. Their work is based on long term fieldwork undertaken during the 1990s and 2000s in three different places, the Northern Ob region in North West Siberia and in the Komi and Udmurt Republics. It sheds light on how different traditions are favoured and transformed in multicultural Russia today. Siikala and Ulyashev examine rituals, songs, and festivals that emphasize specificity and create feelings of belonging between members of families, kin groups, villages, ethnic groups, and nations, and interpret them from a perspective of area, state, and cultural policies. A closer look at post-Soviet Khanty, Komi and Udmurts shows that opportunities to perform ethnic culture vary significantly among Russian minorities with different histories and administrative organisation. Within this variation the dialogue between local and administrative needs is decisive.

Author : Simon Goldhill,Robin Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521642477

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Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy by Simon Goldhill,Robin Osborne Pdf

This 1999 book discusses the ways performance is central to the practice and ideology of Athenian democracy.

Author : Heather Maring
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813052922

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Signs That Sing by Heather Maring Pdf

“A critically sophisticated leap forward in the study of early medieval literature, Signs That Sing issues a bold challenge to long-held preconceptions about the relationships underlying Old English poetry between past and present, pagan and Christian, and oral and literary.”—Joseph Falaky Nagy, author of Conversing with Angels and Ancients: Literary Myths of Medieval Ireland “Maring sidesteps simplistic oral versus literary schools of thought as she considers Old English verse as the product of an emergent hybrid form, representing a fusion of native poetics and Christian beliefs and practices. A welcome contribution to oral poetics and the understanding of the earliest period of English literature.”—John D. Niles, author of The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England 1066–1901: Remembering, Forgetting, Deciphering, and Renewing the Past “Elegantly shows how the elements of oral poetry continued to inspire the authors of Old English verse long after their conversion to Christianity. Far from being antiquarian relics, the themes of oral verse joined with learned exegesis and ritual performances to form a rich source of metaphorical meaning in Old English poetry, which this book brilliantly opens up to modern readers.”—Emily V. Thornbury, author of Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England In Signs That Sing, Heather Maring argues that oral tradition, ritual, and literate Latinbased practices are dynamically interconnected in Old English poetry. Resisting the tendency to study these different forms of expression separately, Maring contends that poets combined them in hybrid techniques that were important to the development of early English literature. Maring examines a variety of texts, including Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, Deor, The Dream of the Rood, Genesis A/B, The Advent Lyrics, and select riddles. She shows how themes and typescenes from oral tradition—devouring-the-dead, the lord-retainer, the poet-patron, and the sea voyage—become metaphors for sacred concepts in the hands of Christian authors. She also cites similarities between oral-traditional and ritual signs to describe how poets systematically employed ritual signs in written poems to dramatic effect. The result, Maring demonstrates, is richly elaborate verse filled with shared symbols and themes that would have been highly meaningful and widely understood by audiences at the time.

Author : Martin Banham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139451499

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A History of Theatre in Africa by Martin Banham Pdf

This book aims to offer a broad history of theatre in Africa. The roots of African theatre are ancient and complex and lie in areas of community festival, seasonal rhythm and religious ritual, as well as in the work of popular entertainers and storytellers. Since the 1950s, in a movement that has paralleled the political emancipation of so much of the continent, there has also grown a theatre that comments back from the colonized world to the world of the colonists and explores its own cultural, political and linguistic identity. A History of Theatre in Africa offers a comprehensive, yet accessible, account of this long and varied chronicle, written by a team of scholars in the field. Chapters include an examination of the concepts of 'history' and 'theatre'; North Africa; Francophone theatre; Anglophone West Africa; East Africa; Southern Africa; Lusophone African theatre; Mauritius and Reunion; and the African diaspora.

Author : Wright
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004663923

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Pueblo Cultures by Wright Pdf

Author : Jack Santino
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607326359

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Public Performances by Jack Santino Pdf

Public Performances offers a deep and wide-ranging exploration of relationships among genres of public performance and of the underlying political motivations they share. Illustrating the connections among three themes—the political, the carnivalesque, and the ritualesque—this volume provides rich and comprehensive insight into public performance as an assertion of political power. Contributors consider how public genres of performance express not only celebration but also dissent, grief, and remembrance; examine the permeability of the boundaries between genres; and analyze the approval or regulation of such events by municipalities and other institutions. Where the particular use of public space is not sanctioned or where that use meets with hostility from institutions or represents a critique of them, performers are effectively reclaiming public space to make public statements on their own terms—an act of popular sovereignty. Through these concepts, Public Performances distinguishes the sometimes overlapping dimensions of public symbolic display. Carnival, and thus the carnivalesque, is understood to possess tacit social permission for unconventional or even deviant performance, on the grounds that normal social order will resume when the performance concludes. Ritual, and the ritualesque, leverages a deeper symbolic sensibility, one believed—or at least intended—by the participants to effect transformative, longer-term change. Contributors: Roger D. Abrahams, John Borgonovo, Laurent Sébastien Fournier, Lisa Gilman, Barbara Graham, David Harnish, Samuel Kinser, Scott Magelssen, Elena Martinez, Pamela Moro, Beverly J. Stoeltje, Daniel Wojcik, Dorothy L. Zinn

Author : Ekkehart Malotki
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803281234

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Hopi Coyote Tales by Ekkehart Malotki Pdf

This volume brings together twenty-one traditional tales recently retold by Hopi narrators. Complete with English translations and original Hopi transcriptions on facing pages and a bilingual glossary. Hopi Coyote Tales is important to an understanding of the Hopi language and folklore. To nomadic hunters such as the Navajo, who competed with him on the open range, Coyote was by turns a formidable trickster, a demonic witchperson, and a god. As sedentary planters, the Hopis tended to reduce Coyote to the level of a laughable fool. In these tales Coyote is a friendly bumbler whose mistakes teach listeners what tricks to avoid. Time after time he is hurt or killed for failing to understand a situation correctly. The collection is as amusing as animal fables should be, as simply told, and as instructive. Published as a companion volume to Father Berard Haile's Navajo Coyote Tales, Hopi Coyote Tales is a valuable contribution to cross-cultural studies.

Author : Alan Brill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498597098

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Rabbi on the Ganges by Alan Brill Pdf

Rabbi on the Ganges: A Jewish-Hindu Encounter is the first work to engage the new terrain of Hindu-Jewish religious encounter. The book offers understanding into points of contact between the two religions of Hinduism and Judaism. Providing an important comparative account, the work illuminates key ideas and practices within the traditions, surfacing commonalities between the jnana and Torah study, karmakanda and Jewish ritual, and between the different Hindu philosophic schools and Jewish thought and mysticism, along with meditation and the life of prayer and Kabbalah and creating dialogue around ritual, mediation, worship, and dietary restrictions. The goal of the book is not only to unfold the content of these faith traditions but also to create a religious encounter marked by mutual and reciprocal understanding and openness.

Author : Cat Quine
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004424395

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Casting Down the Host of Heaven by Cat Quine Pdf

In Casting Down the Host of Heaven Cat Quine analyses the ambiguous nature of the Host and explores the role of ritual in the polemic against their worship.

Author : Zohar Hadromi-Allouche,Michael Hubbard MacKay
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 9781793644909

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Betwixt and Between Liminality and Marginality by Zohar Hadromi-Allouche,Michael Hubbard MacKay Pdf

This volume offers an interdisciplinary re-thinking about what it means to be "the marginal" within society. Using a supple notion of liminality as its framework, this book concurrently challenges Turner's symbolic anthropology, while celebrating its continued influence and recasting into an interdisciplinary landscape.

Author : Richard Schechner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136448720

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Performance Studies by Richard Schechner Pdf

Richard Schechner is a pioneer of Performance Studies. A scholar, theatre director, editor, and playwright he is University Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and Editor of TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies. He is the author of Public Domain (1969), Environmental Theater (1973), The End of Humanism (1982), Performance Theory (2003, Routledge), Between Theater and Anthropology (1985), The Future of Ritual (1993, Routledge), and Over, Under, and Around: Essays on Performance and Culture (2004). His books have been translated into French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Serbo-Croat, German, Italian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Polish. He is the general editor of the Worlds of Performance series published by Routledge and the co-editor of the Enactments series published by Seagull Books. Sara Brady is Assistant Professor at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She is author of Performance, Politics and the War on Terror (2012).

Author : Jean Sybil La Fontaine
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0719019664

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Initiation by Jean Sybil La Fontaine Pdf

Author : Ekkehart Malotki,Michael Lomatuway'ma,Lorena Lomatuway'ma,Sidney Namingha
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803282834

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Hopi Tales of Destruction by Ekkehart Malotki,Michael Lomatuway'ma,Lorena Lomatuway'ma,Sidney Namingha Pdf

"The tales concern such villages as Sikyatki, Hisatsongoopavi, and Awat'ovi, which were destroyed by war, fire, earthquake, or internal strife. Though abandoned for centuries, they live in memory, reminders of ancient tragedies and enmities that changed the Hopis forever. Related by storytellers from Second and Third Mesa, these tales vividly describe village destruction and show how much human evils such as witchcraft, hubris, corruption and betrayal of fundamental values can precipitate social disintegration and chaos."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : M. Schweitzer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137437358

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Transatlantic Broadway by M. Schweitzer Pdf

Transatlantic Broadway traces the infrastructural networks and technological advances that supported the globalization of popular entertainment in the pre-World War I period, with a specific focus on the production and performance of Broadway as physical space, dream factory, and glorious machine.