Ritual Performance Media

Author : Mary M. Crain,Felicia Hughes-Freeland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134739868

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Recasting Ritual by Mary M. Crain,Felicia Hughes-Freeland Pdf

Recasting Ritual explores how ritualized action diversifies in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts. The contributors look at how issues such as globalisation and technology affect ritual performance and how minorities often utilise performances to affirm their own identites while also speaking to outsiders. The contributors examine the relationship between ritual meaning and social identity through case-studies drawn from the Pacific, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean, Latin America, Indonesia, and East and West Africa. Study of the theoretical underpinnings of social action affirms the independence of anthropology as a discipline from cultural, media and performance studies, according it a distinctive role in elucidating contemporary and emergent human conditions.

Author : Felicia Hughes-Freeland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Mass media
ISBN : 0203459679

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Ritual, Performance, Media by Felicia Hughes-Freeland Pdf

Author : Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth. Conference
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Culture
ISBN : 9780415163385

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Ritual, Performance, Media by Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth. Conference Pdf

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Felicia Hughes-Freeland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134713820

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Ritual, Performance, Media by Felicia Hughes-Freeland Pdf

Ritual, Performance and Media are significant areas of study which are essential to anthropology and are often surprisingly overlooked. This book brings a more anthropological perspective to debates about media consumption, performativity and the characteristics of spectacle which have transformed cultural studies over the past decade.

Author : Jon P. Mitchell,Michael Bull
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857854964

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Ritual, Performance and the Senses by Jon P. Mitchell,Michael Bull Pdf

Ritual has long been a central concept in anthropological theories of religious transmission. Ritual, Performance and the Senses offers a new understanding of how ritual enables religious representations – ideas, beliefs, values – to be shared among participants. Focusing on the body and the experiential nature of ritual, the book brings together insights from three distinct areas of study: cognitive/neuroanthropology, performance studies and the anthropology of the senses. Eight chapters by scholars from each of these sub-disciplines investigate different aspects of embodied religious practice, ranging from philosophical discussions of belief to explorations of the biological processes taking place in the brain itself. Case studies range from miracles and visionary activity in Catholic Malta to meditative practices in theatrical performance and include three pilgrimage sites: the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the festival of Ramlila in Ramnagar, India and the mountain shrine of the Lord of the Shiny Snow in Andean Peru. Understanding ritual allows us to understand processes at the very centre of human social life and humanity itself, making this an invaluable text for students and scholars in anthropology, cognitive science, performance studies and religious studies.

Author : Mary M. Crain,Felicia Hughes-Freeland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134739875

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Recasting Ritual by Mary M. Crain,Felicia Hughes-Freeland Pdf

Recasting Ritual explores how ritualized action diversifies in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts. The contributors look at how issues such as globalisation and technology affect ritual performance and how minorities often utilise performances to affirm their own identites while also speaking to outsiders. The contributors examine the relationship between ritual meaning and social identity through case-studies drawn from the Pacific, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean, Latin America, Indonesia, and East and West Africa. Study of the theoretical underpinnings of social action affirms the independence of anthropology as a discipline from cultural, media and performance studies, according it a distinctive role in elucidating contemporary and emergent human conditions.

Author : Barry Stephenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199943593

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Ritual: A Very Short Introduction by Barry Stephenson Pdf

Ritual is part of what it means to be human. Like sports, music, and drama, ritual defines and enriches culture, putting those who practice it in touch with sources of value and meaning larger than themselves. Ritual is unavoidable, yet it holds a place in modern life that is decidedly ambiguous. What is ritual? What does it do? Is it useful? What are the various kinds of ritual? Is ritual tradition bound and conservative or innovative and transformational? Alongside description of a number of specific rites, this Very Short Introduction explores ritual from both theoretical and historical perspectives. Barry Stephenson focuses on the places where ritual touches everyday life: in politics and power; moments of transformation in the life cycle; as performance and embodiment. He also discusses the boundaries of ritual, and how and why certain behaviors have been studied as ritual while others have not. Stephenson shows how ritual is an important vehicle for group and identity formation; how it generates and transmits beliefs and values; how it can be used to exploit and oppress; and how it has served as a touchstone for thinking about cultural origins and historical change. Encompassing the breadth and depth of modern ritual studies, Barry Stephenson's Very Short Introduction also develops a narrative of ritual's place in social and cultural life. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Ronald L. Grimes,Ute Husken,Udo Simon,Eric Venbrux
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199831300

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Ritual, Media, and Conflict by Ronald L. Grimes,Ute Husken,Udo Simon,Eric Venbrux Pdf

Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict, but they can also mediate it and although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies are changing the dynamics of conflict and shaping strategies for deploying rituals. This collection of essays emerged from a two-year project based on collaboration between the Faculty of Religious Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands and the Ritual Dynamics Collaborative Research Center at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. An interdisciplinary team of twenty-four scholars locates, describes, and explores cases in which media-driven rituals or ritually saturated media instigate, disseminate, or escalate conflict. Each multi-authored chapter is built around global and local examples of ritualized, mediatized conflict. The book's central question is: "When ritual and media interact (either by the mediatizing of ritual or by the ritualizing of media), how do the patterns of conflict change?"

Author : Nick Couldry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134490172

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Media Rituals by Nick Couldry Pdf

Media Rituals rethinks our accepted concepts of ritual behaviour for a media-saturated age. It connects ritual directly with questions of power, government, and surveillance and explores the ritual space which the media construct and where their power is legitimated. Drawing on sociological and anthropological approaches to the study of ritual, Couldry applies the work of theorists such as Durkheim, Bourdieu and Bloch to a number of important media arenas: the public media event; reality TV; Webcam sites; talk shows and docu-soaps; media pilgrimages; the construction of celebrity. In a final chapter, he imagines a different world where the media's ritual power is less, because the possibilities of participation in media production are more evenly shared.

Author : Johanna Sumiala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780415684323

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Media and Ritual by Johanna Sumiala Pdf

This wide-ranging and accessible book offers a stimulating introduction to the field of media anthropology and the study of religious ritual. Johanna Sumiala explores the interweaving of rituals, communication and community. She uses the tools of anthropological enquiry to examine a variety of media events, including the death of Michael Jackson, a royal wedding and the transgressive actions which took place in Abu Ghraib, and to understand the inner significance of the media coverage of such events. The book deals with theories of ritual, media as ritual including reception, production and representation, and rituals of death in the media. It will be invaluable to students and scholars alike across media, religion and anthropology.

Author : Graham St. John
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1845454626

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Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance by Graham St. John Pdf

In the twenty years following Victor Turner's death, interventions on the interconnected performance modes of play, drama, and community (dimensions of which Turner deemed the limen), and experimental and analytical forays into the anthropologies of experience and consciousness, have complemented and extended Turnerian readings on the moments and sites of culture's becoming. Examining Turner's continued relevance in performance and popular culture, pilgrimage and communitas, as well as Edith Turner's role, the contributors reflect on the wide application of Victor Turner's thought to cultural performance in the early twenty-first century and explore how Turner's ideas have been re-engaged, renovated, and repurposed in studies of contemporary cultural performance.

Author : Richard Schechner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134946921

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The Future of Ritual by Richard Schechner Pdf

In The Future of Ritual, Richard Schechner explores the nature of ritualised behaviour and its relationship to performance and politics. A brilliant and uncontainable examination of cultural expression and communal action, The Future of Ritual asks pertinent questions about art, theatre and the changing meaning of 'culture' in today's intercultural world. An exciting new work by the author of Performance Theory.

Author : Jackie Marsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134308385

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Popular Culture, New Media and Digital Literacy in Early Childhood by Jackie Marsh Pdf

This book offers a range of perspectives on children's multimodal experiences, providing a ground-breaking account of the ways in which children engage with popular culture, media and digital literacy practices from their earliest years. Many young children have extensive experience of film, television, printed media, computer games, mobile phones and the Internet from birth, yet their reaction to media texts is rarely acknowledged in the national curricula of any country. This seminal text focuses on children from birth to eight years, addressing issues such as: * media and identity construction * media literacy practices in the home * the changing nature of literacy in technologically advanced societies * The place of popular and media texts in children's lives and the use of such texts in the curriculum. By exploring children's engagement with popular culture, media and digital texts in the home, community and early years settings, the contributors look at empirical studies from around the world, and draw out vital new theoretical issues relating to children's emergent techno-literacy practices. With an unmatchable team of international experts evaluating topics from text-messaging to the Teletubbies, this book is a long-overdue, fascinating and illuminating read for policy-makers, educational researchers and practitioners, and crosses over to appeal to those in the linguistics field.

Author : Jens Kreinath,J.A.M. Snoek,Michael Stausberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047421825

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Theorizing Rituals, Volume 2: Annotated Bibliography of Ritual Theory, 1966-2005 by Jens Kreinath,J.A.M. Snoek,Michael Stausberg Pdf

Volume two of Theorizing Rituals mainly consists of an annotated bibliography of more than 400 items covering those books, edited volumes and essays that are considered most relevant for the field of ritual theory.

Author : Tim Hutchings
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136277504

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Creating Church Online by Tim Hutchings Pdf

Online churches are internet-based Christian communities, pursuing worship, discussion, friendship, support, proselytization, and other key religious goals through computer-mediated communication. Hundreds of thousands of people are now involved with online congregations, generating new kinds of ritual, leadership, and community and new networks of global influence. Creating Church Online constructs a rich ethnographic account of the diverse cultures of online churches, from virtual worlds to video streams. This book also outlines the history of online churchgoing, from its origins in the 1980s to the present day, and traces the major themes of academic and Christian debate around this topic. Applying some of the leading current theories in the study of religion, media and culture to this data, Tim Hutchings proposes a new model of religious design in contexts of mediatization, and draws attention to digital networks, transformative third spaces and terrains of existential vulnerability. Creating Church Online advances our understanding of the significance and impact of digital media in the religious and social lives of its users, in search of new theoretical frameworks for digital religion.