Social performance : symbolic action, cultural pragmatics, and ritual / edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Bernhard Giesen, Jason L. Mast.
"Taking a "cultural pragmatic" approach to meaning, the contributors suggest a new way of looking at the continuum that stretches between ritual and strategic action. They do so by developing, for the first time, a model of "social performance". This volume offers the first...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Series: | Cambridge cultural social studies.
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "Taking a "cultural pragmatic" approach to meaning, the contributors suggest a new way of looking at the continuum that stretches between ritual and strategic action. They do so by developing, for the first time, a model of "social performance". This volume offers the first systematic and analytical framework that transforms the metaphor into a social theory and applies it to a series of facinating large-scale social and cultural processes - from September 11 and the Clinton/Lewinsky Affair, to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Willy Brandt's famous "kneefall" before the Warsaw momument."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 374) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511168357 9780511168352 0511168799 9780511168796 0511169221 9780511169229 051161683X 9780511616839 052167462X 9780521674621 1280436964 9781280436963 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511616839 |