Social performance : symbolic action, cultural pragmatics, and ritual /

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Social performance : symbolic action, cultural pragmatics, and ritual / symbolic action, cultural pragmatics, and ritual / edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Bernhard Giesen, Jason L. Mast. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,2006. 2006. - xv, 374 : ill. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge cultural social studies .

Distributer: Bacca

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.

Catalogued by: Sara

0521857953 (hbk.) 052167462X (pbk.)

9780521857956 9780521674621

2006298282


Culture.
Performative (Philosophy)
Action theory.
Symbolism (Psychology)
Cognition and culture.
Symbolic interactionism.
Sociaal handelen.
Symboliek.
Riten.

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