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South Italian Festivals: A Local History of Ritual and Change

Door Herman Tak

Categorie
Algemeen Landen & Volkeren
Boeknummer
#384652-UF2
Titel
South Italian Festivals: A Local History of Ritual and Change
Auteur
Tak, Herman
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Amsterdam University Press
Jaar van uitgave
2000
ISBN10
9053564268
ISBN13
9789053564264
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrated with some photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
South Italian Festivals is a story and study of socio-economic changes in an Italian mountain town Calvello (Basilicata) over a five-hundred-year period; from traditional society to modernity. Instead of exploring a single festival the book studies a ritual one year cycle of local and ecclesiastical rituals. With the analysis of field research, oral history, iconography, topography, as well as archival sources, Herman Tak reveals an interplay between the structures of social life and their ritual expression. South Italian Festivals elucidates processes of ritual continuity and change by exploring the dialectic between local production, reproduction and reworking of rituals. It also analyses the structures of power underlying an interplay of internal and external forces which govern socio-e... (Lees verder)conomic relations.
Pagina's
272
Conditie
Goed — Small stain on pages 269-272.
Prijs
€ 15,00

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