Models and Mirrors

Towards an Anthropology of Public Events
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-1-57181-165-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Ritual is one of the most discussed cultural practices, yet its treatment in anthropological terms has been seriously limited, characterized by a host of narrow conceptual distinctions. One major reason for this situation has been the prevalence of positivist anthropologies that have viewed and summarized ritual occasions first and foremost in terms of their declared and assumed functions. By contrast, this book, which has become a classic, investigates them as epistemological phenomena in their own right. Comparing public events - a domain which includes ritual and related occasions - the author argues that any public event must first be comprehended through the logic of its design. It is the logic of organization of an occasion which establishes in large measure what that occasion is able to do in relation to the world within which it is created and practiced.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Handelman, Don

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Preface to the Second Edition: Theorizing Through Models and Mirrors

Acknowledgements

Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1. Premises and Prepossessions

Chapter 2. Models and Mirrors

Chapter 3. Precariousness in Play

Part II: Proto-Events

Chapter 4. The Donkey Game

Chapter 5. Banana Time

Part III: Public Events

Chapter 6. The Palio of Siena

Chapter 7. Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland

Chapter 8. Holiday Celebrations in Israeli Kindergartens

(Co-author, Lea Shamgar-Handelman)

Chapter 9. State Ceremonies of Israel - Remembrance Day and Independence Day

(Co-author, Elihu Katz)

Chapter 10. Symbolic Types - Clowns

Epilogue: Towards Media Events

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Handelman, Don
Don Handelman is Sarah Allen Shaine Professor of Anthropology & Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1971. He has been a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study, the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Collegium Budapest: Institute for Advanced Study, and the Institute for Advanced Study at The Hebrew University, and the Olof Palme Visiting Professor of the Swedish Social Science Research Council. His field research has been in the Great Basin, Newfoundland, Israel, and Andhra Pradesh. He has written extensively on ritual, play, expressive culture, and bureaucratic logic and the modern state, and is the author of Models and Mirrors: Towards an Anthropology of Public Events, Berghahn Books, 1998; Nationalism and the Israeli State: Bureaucratic Logic in Public Events, 2004; and with David Shulman is the coauthor of God Inside Out: Siva's Game of Dice (1997) and Siva in the Forest of Pines: An Essay on Sorcery and Self Knowledge (2004).