Off Stage/On Display

by Shryock, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780804750073
• ISBN10: 0804750076
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-15
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

Why are public identities so predictably, and often so radically, different from identities that flourish in realms of collective intimacy? Why does belonging to a group, knowing about it, or displaying its qualities to others require that certain aspects of identification be denied--not because they are false or stereotypical, but because they are thought to be accurate and indispensable signs of membership? InOff Stage/On Display, ten scholars with diverse geographical, theoretical, and topical interests take a close, critical look at the vexed relationship between public identities and the intimate spheres in which they are made. They ask how scholars and activists can engage more creatively with problems encountered on this awkward terrain, which is now global both in location and political significance. Their answers, careful and suggestive, point to more effective strategies for representing aspects of identification that cannot be easily shown or, in an age of mass mediation, easily concealed.

Author Biography

Andrew Shryock is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Contributors	xi
Introduction
Other Conscious/Self Aware: First Thoughts on Cultural Intimacy and Mass Mediation	3	(28)
Andrew Shryock
PART ONE. STAGING AND SCREENING
Striking Samburu and a Mad Cow: Adventures in Anthropollywood	31	(38)
Kelly M. Askew
Egyptian Cinema On Stage and Off	69	(32)
Walter Armbrust
PART TWO. EXHIBITIONISM
Wedded to the Republic: Public Intellectuals and Intimacy-Oriented Publics in Turkey	101	(30)
Esra Ozyurek
Intimacy and Hegemony in the New Europe: The Politics of Culture at Seville's Universal Exposition	131	(26)
Richard Maddox
PART THREE. SEX, FOOD, AND SPIRITS
Sexual Secrets: Candomble, Brazil, and the Multiple Intimacies of the African Diaspora	157	(34)
J. Lorand Matory
``X Marks the Future of Brazil'': Protestant Ethics and Bedeviling Mixtures in a Brazilian Cultural Heritage Center	191	(34)
John F. Collins
PART FOUR. FAULT LINES
Intimacy and Corruption in Thailand's Age of Transparency	225	(19)
Rosalind Morris
Monolithic Intentionality, Belonging, and the Production of State Paranoia: A View Through Stasi onto the Late GDR	244	(35)
Andreas Glaeser
PART FIVE. OVERLY FAMILIAR
In the Double Remoteness of Arab Detroit: Reflections on Ethnography, Culture Work, and the Intimate Disciplines of Americanization	279	(38)
Andrew Shryock
AFTERWORD
Intimating Culture: Local Contexts and International Power	317	(20)
Michael Herzfeld
Index	337