| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-229) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Venezuela -- Social conditions -- 1958-
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Venezuela. |
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1958- |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- Venezuela.
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Popular culture. |
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Festivals -- Venezuela.
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Festivals. |
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Folklore -- Performance -- Venezuela.
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Folklore -- Performance. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1958 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Guss, David M. Festive state. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2000 0520202899 (DLC) 99056890 (OCoLC)42772212 |
| ISBN |
9780520924864 (electronic book) |
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052092486X (electronic book) |
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0585389942 (electronic book) |
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9780585389943 (electronic book) |
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0520202899 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520202894 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520223314 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520223318 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1597346152 |
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9781597346153 |
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