Affecting Performance: Meaning, Movement, and Experience in Okiek Women's Initiation (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry) - Hardcover

Kratz, Corinne A.

 
9781560982340: Affecting Performance: Meaning, Movement, and Experience in Okiek Women's Initiation (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry)

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Combining symbolic interpretation, discourse analysis, semiotics, history, political economy, and gender studies, Corinne A. Kratz examines the power of ritual to produce social transformation and explores how children are made into adults through initiation rites. Taking girls' passage into womanhood as her topic, Kratz considers dramatic structure, costume, song, ritual space, and the discourse, rhetoric, and poetics of ceremonial performance.

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Corinne A. Kratz is an assistant professor in African studies at Emory University.

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9781560982739: Affecting Performance: Meaning, Movement, and Experience in Okiek Women's Initiation (Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry)

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ISBN 10:  156098273X ISBN 13:  9781560982739
Verlag: Smithsonian Books, 1994
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