ABSTRACT
Ritual, Performance and Media are significant areas of study which are essential to anthropology and are often surprisingly overlooked. This book brings a more anthropological perspective to debates about media consumption, performativity and the characteristics of spectacle which have transformed cultural studies over the past decade.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |17 pages
Perspectives towards ballet performance
Exploring, repairing and maintaining frames
chapter |20 pages
From ritual sacrifice to media commodity
Anthropological and media constructions of the Spanish bullfight and the rise of women performers
chapter |19 pages
‘A oes heddwch?'
Contesting meanings and identities in the Welsh National Eisteddfod
chapter |21 pages
Bound and unbound entities
Reflections on the ethnographic perspectives of anthropology vis-à-vis media and cultural studies
