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Libro 9 de 35: New Anthropologies of Europe

Creed, Gerald W.

 
9780253222619: Masquerade and Postsocialism: Ritual and Cultural Dispossession in Bulgaria (New Anthropologies of Europe)
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ISBN 10: 0253222613 ISBN 13: 9780253222619
Editorial: Indiana University Press (IPS), 2011

Sinopsis

In this compelling and evocative study, Gerald Creed analyzes contemporary mumming rituals in rural Bulgaria for what they reveal about life after socialism-and for what they can tell us about the state of postsocialist studies. Often called kukeri or survakari, these rituals are all-consuming events, as dancers in elaborate costumes go from house to house, demanding food and drink and bestowing blessings to ward off evil and ensure fertility. Mumming has flourished in the post-Soviet era. Creed uses the analysis of mumming as a platform for critiquing key themes in postsocialist studies, including understandings of civil society and democracy; gender and sexuality; autonomy and community; and ethnicity and nationalism. He argues that kukeri events reveal indigenous cultural resources that could have been used both practically and intellectually to ease the postsocialist reconstruction of Bulgarian society, but were not. This work makes an important contribution to the ethnographic literature on Eastern Europe and to theories of postsocialism.

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Acerca del autor

Gerald W. Creed is Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and the City University of New York Graduate Center, where he is Executive Officer of the Anthropology Program. He is author of Domesticating Revolution: From Socialist Reform to Ambivalent Transition in a Bulgarian Village.

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Editorial
Indiana University Press (IPS)
Año de publicación
2011
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0253222613
ISBN 13 
9780253222619
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Número de páginas
272
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