Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-229) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Variations on a Venezuelan quartet -- The selling of San Juan : the performance of history in an Afro-Venezuelan community -- "Indianness" and the construction of ethnicity in the Day of the Monkey -- "Full speed ahead with Venezuela" : the tobacco industry, nationalism, and the business of popular culture -- From village square to opera house : Tamunangue and the theater of domination.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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If, as David Guss argues, culture is a contested terrain with constantly changing contours, then festivals are its battlegrounds, where people come to fight and dispute in large acts of public display. Festive behavior, long seen by anthropologists and folklorists as the "uniform expression of a collective consciousness, is contentious and often subversive," and The Festive State is an eye-opening guide to its workings.
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Title
Festive state.
International Standard Book Number
0520202899
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Festivals-- Venezuela.
Folklore-- Performance-- Venezuela.
Popular culture-- Venezuela.
Culture populaire-- Venezuela.
Fêtes-- Venezuela.
Folklore-- Interprétation-- Venezuela.
Etnisch bewustzijn.
Feesten.
Festivals.
Folklore-- Performance.
Nationalisme.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.