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In this fascinating volume, acclaimed theatre historian Erika Fischer-Lichte reflects on the role and meaning accorded to the theme of sacrifice in Western cultures as mirrored in particular fusions of theatre and ritual. Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual presents a radical re-definition of ritual theatre through analysis of performances as diverse as:Max Reinhardt's new people's theatrethe mass spectacles of post-revolutionary RussiaAmerican Zionist pageantsthe Olympic Games.In offering both a performative and a semiotic analysis of suc
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This is a collection of essays on the history of the Greek theatre, and on the wider context of festival culture in which theatrical activity took place in the Greek world. The emphasis is on a fresh interpretation of the documentary material - inscriptions, archaeological remains, and monuments.
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Across the medieval and early modern eras, new rulers were celebrated with increasingly elaborate coronations and inaugurations that symbolically conferred legitimacy and political power upon them. Many historians have considered rituals like these as irrelevant to understanding modern governance--an idea that this volume challenges through illuminating case studies focused on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Habsburg lands. Taking the formal elasticity of these events as the key to their lasting relevance, the contributors explore important questions around their political, legal, social, and cultural significance and their curious persistence as a historical phenomenon over time.
Coronations --- Crowning of sovereigns --- Kings and rulers --- Pageants --- Rites and ceremonies --- Crowns --- History --- Coronation --- E-books --- Austria --- Kings and rulers.
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Folk songs, Portuguese --- Bumba-Meu-Boi --- Pageants --- History and criticism --- Brazil --- Social life and customs. --- History and criticism.
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"As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native American people to create tourist attractions. From the Happy Canyon Indian Pageant and Wild West Show in Pendleton, Oregon, to outdoor dramas like 'Tecumseh!' in Chillicothe, Ohio, and 'Unto These Hills' in Cherokee, North Carolina, locals staged performances that claimed to honor an Indigenous past while depicting that past on white settlers' terms. Linking the origins of these performances to their present-day incarnations, this incisive book reveals how they constituted what Katrina Phillips calls 'salvage tourism' - a set of practices paralleling so-called salvage ethnography, which documented the histories, languages, and cultures of Indigenous people while reinforcing a belief that Native American societies were inevitably disappearing"--
Theater and nationalism --- Pageants --- Indians of North America --- Indian tourism --- Heritage tourism --- Public opinion. --- History. --- United States --- Historiography.
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Literature and society --- Pageants --- Historical drama, English --- Irish drama --- English drama --- Amateur plays --- Performing arts --- Festivals --- Processions --- Irish literature --- History --- History and criticism. --- Irish authors --- History and criticism
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Nowadays pageants often take the form of parades of effervescent young women competing for popular recognition in hyped up media events. However, these "beauty pageants" are a mere pastiche of the elaborate historical parades of the medieval period that took significant, social, religious, or civic events and their protagonists, as subjects. Pageants were historically characterized by resplendent costuming and elaborate processions that were often given to much pomp and ceremony. Pageantry ha...
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History of civilization --- History of Europe --- Courts and courtiers --- Royal houses --- Command performances --- Pageants --- Public spaces --- Spatial behavior --- History --- Europe --- Social life and customs --- Royal houses - Europe - History --- Command performances - Europe - History --- Pageants - Europe - History --- Public spaces - Europe - History --- Spatial behavior - Europe - History --- Europe - Courts and courtiers --- Europe - Social life and customs
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Fifty years after Jamaican and Trinidadian independence, Imagining Caribbean Womanhood examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean, providing a first cultural history of Caribbean beauty competitions, spanning from Kingston to London. It traces the origins and transformation of female beauty contests in the British Caribbean from 1929 to 1970, through the development of cultural nationalism, race-conscious politics and decolonisation. The beauty contest, a seemingly marginal phenomenon, is used to illuminate the persistence of racial supremacy, the advance of consumer culture and the negotiation of race and nation through the idealised performance of cultured, modern beauty. Modern Caribbean femininity was intended to be politically functional but also commercially viable and subtly eroticised. The lively discussion surrounding beauty competitions, examined in this book, reveals that femininity was used to shape ideas about Caribbean modernity, citizenship, and political and economic freedom. This cultural history of Caribbean beauty competitions will be of value to scholarship on beauty, Caribbean studies, postcolonial studies, gender studies, 'race' and racism studies and studies of the body.
Ethnic attitudes --- Race awareness --- Beauty contests --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Ethnic relations --- Minorities --- Cultural awareness --- Awareness --- Ethnopsychology --- Beauty pageants --- Pageants, Beauty --- Contests --- History --- Political aspects --- Social aspects --- Anglophone Caribbean. --- Barbados. --- British Caribbean. --- Caribbean beauty contests. --- Carnival Queen. --- Claudia Jones. --- Jamaican racial democracy. --- London. --- Miss Ebony. --- Miss Jamaica. --- Miss Trinidad. --- TenTypes Model. --- West Indian Gazette. --- black beauty culture. --- creme de la creme. --- cultural revolution. --- radical feminism.
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