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An ambitious reassessment of the political uses of masking. Does the mask reveal more than it conceals? What, this book asks, becomes visible and invisible in the masking practiced in Caribbean cultures—not only in the familiar milieu of the carnival but in political language, social conduct, and cultural expressions that mimic, misrepresent, and mislead? Focusing on masking as a socially significant practice in Caribbean cultures, Gerard Aching's analysis articulates masking, mimicry, and misrecognition as a means of describing and interrogating strategies of visibility and invisibility in Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, Martinique, and beyond. Masking and Power uses ethnographic fieldwork, psychoanalysis, and close literary readings to examine encounters between cultural insiders as these locals mask themselves and one another either to counter the social invisibility imposed on them or to maintain their socioeconomic privileges. Aching exposes the ways in which strategies of masking and mimicry, once employed to negotiate subjectivities within colonial regimes, have been appropriated for state purposes and have become, with the arrival of self-government in the islands, the means by which certain privileged locals make a show of national and cultural unity even as they engage in the privatization of popular culture and its public performances.

Spanish-American literature --- Thematology --- Caribbean Area --- Carnival --- Masquerades --- Popular culture --- Carnavals --- Mascarades --- Culture populaire --- Caraïbes (Région) --- Social conditions. --- Conditions sociales --- Caraïbes (Région) --- Caribbean area --- CARNAVALS --- MASCARADES --- CULTURE POPULAIRE --- REGION CARAÏBE --- CONDITIONS SOCIALES

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In recent years there has been a surge of interest in the popular medieval festival. The most remarkable of its many genres was misrule, those festive occasions on which a temporary and dynamic upside-down world of boy-bishops and Christmas kings was created. This book, the first in-depth study of the role of misrule in medieval England, uses original source material to argue for a more creative approach to the interpretation of these lively and topsy-turvy customs.

Folklore --- History of civilization --- anno 1400-1499 --- England --- Ireland --- Carnival --- Carnavals --- History. --- Political aspects --- Aspect politique --- Great Britain --- Angleterre --- Grande-Bretagne --- Social life and customs --- Politics and government --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Politique et gouvernement

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Anthropologie --- Antropologie --- Linguistique --- Taalkunde --- Photography in ethnology --- #SBIB:39A5 --- Visual anthropology --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Photography in ethnology. --- Photographie --- Carnavals --- Fêtes --- Photographie en ethnologie --- Belgique --- Aspect social --- Wallonie (Belgique) --- Logique

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Folklore --- Recreation. Games. Sports. Corp. expression --- History of civilization --- Carnival --- Feast of Fools --- Feast of Fools. --- #gsdb8 --- Fools, Feast of --- Festivals --- Lords of misrule --- Fasnacht --- Fastnacht --- Mardi Gras (Festival) --- Pre-Lenten festivities --- Masks --- Shrove Tuesday --- Fête des fous --- Carnavals --- Fêtes --- Fête des fous --- Fetes --- Fete des fous --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Moyen age

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This beautifully illustrated volume features work by leading writers and experts on carnival from around the world, and includes two stunning photo essays by acclaimed photographers Pablo Delano and Jeffrey Chock. Editor Milla Cozart Riggio presents a body of work that takes the reader on a fascinating journey exploring the various aspects of carnival - its traditions, its history, its music, its politics - and prefaces each section with an illuminating essay. Traditional carnival theory, based mainly on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Victor Turner, has long defined carnival as inversive or subversive. The essays in this groundbreaking anthology collectively reverse that trend, offering a re-definition of 'carnival' that focuses not on the hierarchy it temporarily displaces or negates, but a one that is rooted in the actual festival event. Carnival details its new theory in terms of a carnival that is at once representative and distinctive: The Carnival of Trinidad - the most copied yet least studied major carnival in the world.

Carnival --- Trinidad --- Social life and customs --- Social life and customs. --- Carnival-- Trinidad. --- Social Science. --- Manners & Customs --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Fasnacht --- Fastnacht --- Mardi Gras (Festival) --- Pre-Lenten festivities --- Festivals --- Masks --- Shrove Tuesday --- Trinidad and Tobago --- Carnival - Trinidad --- Trinidad - Social life and customs --- Carnavals --- Trinité-et-Tobago --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Trinité-et-Tobago