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Loading... Masquerade and Postsocialism: Ritual and Cultural Dispossession in Bulgaria (New Anthropologies of Europe)by Gerald W. Creed
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)306.409499Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Culture and Institutions Specific aspects of culture Biography And History EuropeLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |