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Author : Elaine Bradtke
Publisher : Folklore Enterprises Ltd
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Folk dancing, English
ISBN : 0903515180
Author : Michael Heaney
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781803273877
This book traces the history of morris dancing in England, from its introduction in the 15th century, through the contention of the Reformation and Civil War, when morris dancing and maypoles became potent symbols of the older ways of living, to its re-invention as an emblem of Victorian concepts of Merrie England in the 19th century.
Author : Henry D'Oyley Torrens
Publisher : London Saunders, Otley 1862.
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : OXFORD:600016994
Author : Nigel Pennick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781644114056
• Reveals how mask rituals are akin to shamanic journeying and allow the mask wearer to personify an ancestral presence, spirit, deity, or power • Examines animal guising and shows how mask customs are tied to creation myths and the ancestral founders of a people, tribe, city, or nation • Looks at morris dancers and mummers in the UK, Krampuslauf and Perchtenlauf in Germanic areas, the Gorgon myths of Greece, Norse Berserker rituals, and the annual Black Forest rite to awaken ensouled masks every spring There is a spiritual power in masks that transports one into realms unseen and gives voice to things unspoken. Within the context of ritual, putting on a mask places the wearer at the intersection between the present and the past, the living and the dead, this world and the Otherworld. Masks make it possible to activate ancient archetypes, with the mask wearer reanimating or personifying an ancestral presence or spirit, a deity or power, an animal or a being of the eldritch world. In this illustrated study, Nigel Pennick explores the magical and spiritual aspects of mask wearing from ancient times to the present. He examines the many mask traditions around Europe and shows how mask rituals are similar to shamanic journeying and near-death experiences and can induce ecstatic states that allow the power signified by the mask to take possession of the individual wearing it. He also looks at the practice of dressing up as sacred animals and mask wearing as it relates to ostenta, events that occur suddenly and without warning that are considered a token or sign from the Otherworld. Unveiling the sacred power of masks, the author shows how masks allow us to transport into realms unseen, embody ancestors and otherworldly entities, and connect with traditions that stretch back to time immemorial.
Author : David Worrall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107043602
Worrall presents an innovative transposition of social assemblage theory into eighteenth-century British theatre and performance history.
Author : Sara Forsdyke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691140056
The author argues that various forms of popular culture in ancient Greece--including festival revelry, oral storytelling, and popular forms of justice--were a vital medium for political expression and played an important role in the negotiation of relations between elites and masses, as well as masters and slaves, in the Greek city-states. Although these forms of social life are only poorly attested in the sources, she suggests that Greek literature reveals traces of popular culture that can be further illuminated by comparison with later historical periods. By looking beyond institutional contexts, she recovers the ways that groups that were excluded from the formal political sphere--especially women and slaves--participated in the process by which society was ordered.
Author : Jacqueline Simpson,Stephen Roud
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 997 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : England
ISBN : 9780192100191
Are there any legends about cats? Is Cinderella an English story? What is (or was) a Mumming Play? The subject of folklore covers an extremely wide field, with connections to virtually every aspect of life. It ranges from the bizarre to the seemingly mundane. Similarly, folklore is as much afeature of the modern technological age as the ancient world, of every part of the country, both urban and rural, and of every age group and occupation. Containing 2,000 entries, from dragons to Mother Goose, May Day to Michaelmas, this new reference work is an absorbing and entertaining guide to English folklore. Aimed at a broad general readership, the dictionary provides an authoritative reference source on such legendary characters as the Babesin the Wood, Jack the Giant Killer, and Robin Hood, and gives entertaining and informative explanations of a wide range of subjects in folklore, from nosebleeds and wishbones to cats and hot cross buns.
Author : Julie Peakman
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780232034
Handcuffs, paddles, whips—the words alone are enough to make a person blush. Even by our society’s standards, the practice of things like BDSM is still very hush-hush, considered deviant sexual behavior that must be kept hidden. But the narrow view of what is thought of as “normal” sex—a vanilla act performed by one man and one woman—is more and more contested these days. And as Julie Peakman reveals, normal never really existed; for everyone, different kinds of sex have always offered myriad pleasures, and almost all sexual behaviors have traveled between acceptance and proscription. The Pleasure’s All Mine examines two millennia of letters, diaries, court records, erotic books, medical texts, and more to explore the gamut of “deviant” sexual activity. Delving into the specialized cultures of pain, necrophilia, and bestiality and the social world of plushies, furries, and life-size sex dolls, Peakman considers the changing attitudes toward these, as well as masturbation, “golden showers,” sadomasochism, homosexuals, transvestites, and transsexuals. She follows the history of each behavior through its original reception to its interpretation by sexologists and how it is viewed today, showing how previously acceptable behaviors now provoke social outrage, or vice versa. In addition, she questions why people have been and remain intolerant of other people’s sexual preferences. The first comprehensive history of sexual perversion and packed with both color and black and white images, The Pleasure’s All Mine is a fascinating and sometimes shocking look at the evolution of our views on sex.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Country dancing
ISBN : IND:30000085340788
Author : Georgina Boyes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Folk dancing, English
ISBN : UOM:39015059290901
Author : Eddie Cass,Michael James Preston,Paul Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fold drama, English
ISBN : IND:30000066087630
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : American literature
ISBN : PRNC:32101064472473
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Folk dancing
ISBN : UVA:X006141429
Includes a few dances with music.
Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1270 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015079755651
Author : William Soleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026798111