| Description |
xv, 374 : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge cultural social studies
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 -- 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. |
| Subject |
Culture.
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Performative (Philosophy)
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Action theory.
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Symbolism (Psychology)
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Cognition and culture.
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Symbolic interactionism.
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| Added Author |
Alexander, Jeffrey C., 1947-
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Giesen, Bernhard, 1948-
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Mast, Jason L.
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| ISBN |
052167462X (pbk.) |
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0521857953 (hbk.) |
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9780521857956 (hbk.) |
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9780521674621 (pbk.) |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 294505733 |
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YDXCP 100421959 |
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YDXCP 2379672 |
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NZ1 10521867 |
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