Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
Purchase Benefits
What is included with this book?
Preface: A Tribute to Abner Cohen | p. viii |
Select Bibliography of Works by Abner Cohen | p. xi |
Acknowledgements | p. xiv |
Introduction The Power of the Bizarre | p. xv |
Cultural Performance Authenticity, and Second Nature | p. 1 |
Political Ritual And The Public Sphere In Contemporary West Africa | p. 19 |
Beyond Cultural Performance Women, Culture and the State In Contemporary Nigerian Politics | p. 41 |
The Bantu Botatwe Changing Political Definitions In Southern Zambia | p. 61 |
The Fusion of Identities Political Passion and the Poetics of Cultural Performance Among British Pakistanis | p. 81 |
Commensality As Cultural Performance The Struggle for Leadership in an Igbo Village | p. 101 |
Migrating Cultural Performances The Urhobo Among the Ikale- Yoruba Ondo State, Nigeria | p. 115 |
On Avoidance | p. 125 |
Fighting with Operas Processionals, Politics, And The Spectre of Violence in Rural Hong Kong | p. 145 |
Cultural Performance And The Reproduction Of The Anaguta Symbolic Universe | p. 161 |
Dance and the Cosmology Of Confidence | p. 181 |
Possession and Dispossession Changing Symbolic Structures and Meanings In Contemporary Nigeria | p. 199 |
Cultural Performance And Economic-Political Goals An Ethnographic Study of Blacksmiths in Kano (northern Nigeria) | p. 217 |
Pilgrims and Genies A Case Study in the Liminality and Masquerade Politics of Cultural Performance, From The History of Islam in West Africa, C. 1500 | p. 237 |
A Cultural Given And A Hidden Influence Koranic Teachers in Kano | p. 257 |
Biographical Notes on Contributors | p. 275 |
Index | p. 281 |
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.