Screen LibrarySocial performance：symbolic action, cultural pragmatics, and ritual
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2006. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge cultural social studies |
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| Carrier Form: | xv, 374: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0521857953 (hbk.) 052167462X (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | C912 |
| CLC: |
C912 C912.6 |
| Call Number: | C912/S678-9 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction : Symbolic action in theory and practice : the cultural pragmatics of symbolic action / Jeffrey C. Alexander and Jason L. Mast -- Cultural pragmatics : social performance between ritual and strategy ; From the depths of despair : performance, counterperformance, and "September 11" / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- The cultural pragmatics of event-ness : the Clinton/Lewinsky affair / Jason L. Mast -- Social dramas, shipwrecks, and cockfights : conflict and complicity in social performance / Isaac Reed -- Performing a "new" nation : the role of the TRC in South Africa / Tanya Goodman -- Performing opposition or, how social movements move / Ron Eyerman -- Politics as theatre : an alternative view of the rationalities of power / David E. Apter -- Symbols in action : Willy Brandt's kneefall at the Warsaw memorial / Valentin Rauer -- The promise of performance and the problem of order / Kay Junge -- Performance art / Bernhard Giesen -- Performing the sacred : a Durkheimian perspective on the performative turn in the social sciences / Bernhard Giesen. |