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Rituals and Ceremonies in Popular Culture

Author : Ray Broadus Browne
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780879721619

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This collection of essays examines various rituals and ceremonies in American popular culture, including architecture, religion, television viewing, humor, eating, and dancing.

Rituals of Rule, Rituals of Resistance

Author : William H. Beezley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,5 MB
Release : 1994-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0585281599

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This book presents readers with scholarship on public celebrations and popular culture throughout Mexican history. Leading scholars from the Americas and Great Britain discuss aspects of Mexico's popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present. The vast range of Mexican expression is examined, including Corpus Christi celebrations, New Spain, stone murals, and folk theater. Filling a need that becomes ever more pressing, this volume provides fresh insights.

Rituals and Traditional Events in the Modern World

Author : Jennifer Laing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 14,74 MB
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134593201

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Many events have evolved over centuries, drawing on local customs and conditions. However, as the world becomes increasingly globalised, traditional events and the identities they support are increasingly being challenged and rituals may be lost. Reacting against this trend towards homogeneity, communities strive to preserve and even recreate their traditional events, which may require rituals to be resurrected or reinvented for a new audience. The aim of this book is to explore the role of traditional events and rituals in the modern world. The 16 chapters cover a range of case studies of the performance of ritual through events, including their historical antecedents and development over time, as well as their role in society, link with identities both seemingly fixed and fluid and their continued relevance. The cases examined are not museum pieces, but rather vibrant festivals and events that continue to persist. Drawing on the power of history and cultural tradition, they are manifestations of heritage, existing in three temporalities: celebrating the past, occurring in the present and aiming to continue into and influence the future. Iconic events including Chinese New Year, Hogmanay and the New Orleans Mardi Gras are examined and examples are drawn from a diverse range of countries such as South Korea, China, Laos, the United States, Scotland, Italy, India and Haiti. This volume provides a deep understanding upon the role of tradition and ritual within events, from a global perspective and will be valuable reading for students, researchers and academics interested in events, heritage and culture.

Rituals and Traditional Events in the Modern World

Author : Jennifer Laing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134593139

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Many events have evolved over centuries, drawing on local customs and conditions. However, as the world becomes increasingly globalised, traditional events and the identities they support are increasingly being challenged and rituals may be lost. Reacting against this trend towards homogeneity, communities strive to preserve and even recreate their traditional events, which may require rituals to be resurrected or reinvented for a new audience. The aim of this book is to explore the role of traditional events and rituals in the modern world. The 16 chapters cover a range of case studies of the performance of ritual through events, including their historical antecedents and development over time, as well as their role in society, link with identities both seemingly fixed and fluid and their continued relevance. The cases examined are not museum pieces, but rather vibrant festivals and events that continue to persist. Drawing on the power of history and cultural tradition, they are manifestations of heritage, existing in three temporalities: celebrating the past, occurring in the present and aiming to continue into and influence the future. Iconic events including Chinese New Year, Hogmanay and the New Orleans Mardi Gras are examined and examples are drawn from a diverse range of countries such as South Korea, China, Laos, the United States, Scotland, Italy, India and Haiti. This volume provides a deep understanding upon the role of tradition and ritual within events, from a global perspective and will be valuable reading for students, researchers and academics interested in events, heritage and culture.

Rational Ritual

Author : Michael Suk-Young Chwe
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 37,56 MB
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0691158282

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"Why do beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge. Game theory shows that in order to coordinate its actions, a group of people must form "common knowledge." Each person wants to participate only if others also participate. Members must have knowledge of each other, knowledge of that knowledge, and so on. Michael Chwe applies this insight, with striking erudition, to analyze a range of rituals across history and cultures. He shows that public ceremonies are powerful not simply because they transmit meaning from a central source to each audience member but because they let audience members know what other members know. In a new afterword, Chwe delves into new applications of common knowledge, both in the real world and in experiments, and considers how generating common knowledge has become easier in the digital age." -- From the jacket.

Ritual

Author : Robbie Davis-Floyd
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1800735294

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Designed for both academic and lay audiences, this book identifies the characteristics of ritual and, via multiple examples, details how ritual works on the human body and brain to produce its often profound effects. These include enhancing courage, effecting healing, and generating group cohesion by enacting cultural—or individual—beliefs and values. It also shows what happens when ritual fails.

Curious Customs

Author : Tad Tuleja
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,17 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781578660704

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From the sublime to the ridiculous, Curious Customs scrutinizes every kind of social behavior from etiquette, mating and marriage to rites of passage and dress codes.

Rite out of Place

Author : Ronald L. Grimes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,31 MB
Release : 2006-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0190207809

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Much ritual studies scholarship still focuses on central religious rites. For this reason, Grimes argues, dominant theories, like the data they consider, remain stubbornly conservative. This book issues a challenge to these theories and to popular conceptions of ritual. Rite Out of Place collects 10 revised essays originally published in widely varied sources across the past five years. Grimes has selected for inclusion those essays that track ritual as it haunts the edges of cultural boundaries-ritual converging with theater, ritual on television, ritual at the edge of natural environments and so on. The writing is non-technical, and the implied audience is sufficiently broad than any educated person interested in religion and public life should find it intelligible and engaging.

A Celebration of Customs & Rituals of the World

Author : Robert R. Ingpen
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,4 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780816034796

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Explores initiation rites, wedding feasts, harvest celebrations, religious rituals, and many other customs used around the world to mark all kinds of special occasions.