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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: INDIANA UNIV PR, 272 Seiten, [GR: 17000 - HC/Sozialwissenschaften/Recht/Wirtschaft], [SW: - Archaeology / Anthropology], Gebunde… More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: INDIANA UNIV PR, 272 Seiten, [GR: 17000 - HC/Sozialwissenschaften/Recht/Wirtschaft], [SW: - Archaeology / Anthropology], Gebunden, Klappentext: Gerald W. Creed analyzes contemporary mumming rituals in rural Bulgaria for what they reveal about life after socialism -- and the current state of postsocialist studies. Mumming rituals have flourished in the post-Soviet era. Elaborately costumed dancers go from house to house demanding sustenance and bestowing blessings. Through the analysis of these rites, Creed critiques 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 these 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. Gerald W. Creed analyzes contemporary mumming rituals in rural Bulgariafor what they reveal about life after socialism -- and the current state ofpostsocialist studies. Mumming rituals have flourished in the post-Soviet era.Elaborately costumed dancers go from house to house demanding sustenance andbestowing blessings. Through the analysis of these rites, Creed critiques key themesin postsocialist studies, including understandings of civil society and democracy, gender and sexuality, autonomy and community, and ethnicity and nationalism. Heargues that these events reveal indigenous cultural resources that could have beenused both practically and intellectually to ease the postsocialist reconstruction ofBulgarian society, but were not.<

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[EAN: 9780253355577], Neubuch, [PU: Indiana University Press], 0253355575 2012 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist AnthropologyGerald W. Creed analyzes contemporary mumming rituals in rural Bulgaria for what they reveal about life after socialism?and the current state of postsocialist studies. Mumming rituals have flourished in the post-Soviet era. Elaborately costumed dancers go from house to house demanding sustenance and bestowing blessings. Through the analysis of these rites, Creed critiques 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 these 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.<

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[ED: Hardcover], [PU: INDIANA UNIV PR], Gerald W. Creed analyzes contemporary mumming rituals in rural Bulgariafor what they reveal about life after socialism -- and the current state ofpostsocialist studies. Mumming rituals have flourished in the post-Soviet era.Elaborately costumed dancers go from house to house demanding sustenance andbestowing blessings. Through the analysis of these rites, Creed critiques key themesin postsocialist studies, including understandings of civil society and democracy, gender and sexuality, autonomy and community, and ethnicity and nationalism. Heargues that these events reveal indigenous cultural resources that could have beenused both practically and intellectually to ease the postsocialist reconstruction ofBulgarian society, but were not.Versandfertig in über 4 Wochen, [SC: 0.00]<

2011, ISBN: 9780253355577

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