Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367617226 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 218 str.

Alessandro Testa

Opis

This is the first comparative historical anthropology of popular European Carnival written in English, with a focus on its cultural, religious, and political dimensions and transformations throughout the centuries.

Spis treści

1. A Theory of Popular Culture from the South  2. A Critical Model of European Carnival  3. The Elusive Origins of Carnival  4. Ritual Inversions, Cultural Hegemony, and the Structure of the Conjuncture

O autorze

Alessandro Testa is a Research Fellow in Anthropology at the Institute of Sociological Studies, Charles University, Prague.