Sacrifice And Spectacle
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Spectacle And Sacrifice
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Author : David Johnson
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-03-17
Spectacle And Sacrifice written by David Johnson and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-17 with Social Science categories.
"This book is about the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. Temple festivals, with their giant processions, elaborate rituals, and operas, were the most important influence on the symbolic universe of ordinary villagers and demonstrate their remarkable capacity for religious and artistic creation. The great festivals described in this book were their supreme collective achievements and were carried out virtually without assistance from local officials or educated elites, clerical or lay. Chinese culture was a performance culture, and ritual was the highest form of performance. Village ritual life everywhere in pre-revolutionary China was complex, conservative, and extraordinarily diverse. Festivals and their associated rituals and operas provided the emotional and intellectual materials out of which ordinary people constructed their ideas about the world of men and the realm of the gods. It is, David Johnson argues, impossible to form an adequate idea of traditional Chinese society without a thorough understanding of village ritual. Newly discovered liturgical manuscripts allow him to reconstruct North Chinese temple festivals in unprecedented detail and prove that they are sharply different from the Daoist- and Buddhist-based communal rituals of South China."
Demon Of The Desert Or The Murderer S Sacrifice
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Author : Andrew Leonard Voullaire Campbell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1829*
Demon Of The Desert Or The Murderer S Sacrifice written by Andrew Leonard Voullaire Campbell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1829* with categories.
Sacrifice And Spectacle
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Author : Thomas Bamford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Sacrifice And Spectacle written by Thomas Bamford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Spectacle And Sacrifice
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Author : David George Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009
Spectacle And Sacrifice written by David George Johnson and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with China categories.
This book describes the ritual world of a group of rural settlements in Shanxi province in pre-1949 North China. The great festivals were their supreme collective achievements, carried out virtually without aid from local officials or educated elites. Newly discovered manuscripts allow Johnson to reconstruct the festivals in unprecedented detail.
Theatre Sacrifice Ritual Exploring Forms Of Political Theatre
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Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-05-07
Theatre Sacrifice Ritual Exploring Forms Of Political Theatre written by Erika Fischer-Lichte and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-07 with Performing Arts categories.
In this fascinating volume, acclaimed theatre historian Erika Fischer-Lichte reflects on the role and meaning accorded to the theme of sacrifice in Western cultures as mirrored in particular fusions of theatre and ritual. Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual presents a radical re-definition of ritual theatre through analysis of performances as diverse as: Max Reinhardt's new people's theatre the mass spectacles of post-revolutionary Russia American Zionist pageants the Olympic Games. In offering both a performative and a semiotic analysis of such performances, Fischer-Lichte expertly demonstrates how theatre and ritual are fused in order to tackle the problem of community-building in societies characterised by loss of solidarity and disintegration, and exposes the provocative connection between the utopian visions of community they suggest, and the notion of sacrifice. This innovative study of twentieth-century performative culture boldly examines the complexities of political theatre, propaganda and manipulation of the masses, and offers a revolutionary approach to the study of theatre and performance history.
Demon Of The Desert Or The Murderer S Sacrifice
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Author : Andrew Leonard Voullaire Campbell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1830*
Demon Of The Desert Or The Murderer S Sacrifice written by Andrew Leonard Voullaire Campbell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1830* with categories.
Blood In The Arena
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Author : Alison Futrell
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-05-28
Blood In The Arena written by Alison Futrell and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-28 with History categories.
“Fresh perspectives [on] the study of the Roman amphitheater . . . providing important insights into the psychological dimensions” of gladiatorial combat (Classical World). From the center of Imperial Rome to the farthest reaches of ancient Britain, Gaul, and Spain, amphitheaters marked the landscape of the Western Roman Empire. Built to bring Roman institutions and the spectacle of Roman power to conquered peoples, many still remain as witnesses to the extent and control of the empire. In this book, Alison Futrell explores the arena as a key social and political institution for binding Rome and its provinces. She begins with the origins of the gladiatorial contest and shows how it came to play an important role in restructuring Roman authority in the later Republic. She then traces the spread of amphitheaters across the Western Empire as a means of transmitting and maintaining Roman culture and control in the provinces. Futrell also examines the larger implications of the arena as a venue for the ritualized mass slaughter of human beings, showing how the gladiatorial competition took on both religious and political overtones. This wide-ranging study, which draws insights from archaeology and anthropology, as well as Classics, broadens our understanding of the gladiatorial show and its place within the highly politicized cult practice of the Roman Empire.
Spectacles Of Sacrifice In Andr Gides Paludes And L Immoraliste
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Author : Barbara J. Fleming
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Spectacles Of Sacrifice In Andr Gides Paludes And L Immoraliste written by Barbara J. Fleming and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Sacrifice in literature categories.
Divine Hysteria
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Author : Sarah Murphy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Divine Hysteria written by Sarah Murphy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Spectacles Of Death In Ancient Rome
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Author : Donald G. Kyle
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-11-12
Spectacles Of Death In Ancient Rome written by Donald G. Kyle and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-12 with History categories.
The elaborate and inventive slaughter of humans and animals in the arena fed an insatiable desire for violent spectacle among the Roman people. Donald G. Kyle combines the words of ancient authors with current scholarly research and cross-cultural perspectives, as he explores * the origins and historical development of the games * who the victims were and why they were chosen * how the Romans disposed of the thousands of resulting corpses * the complex religious and ritual aspects of institutionalised violence * the particularly savage treatment given to defiant Christians. This lively and original work provides compelling, sometimes controversial, perspectives on the bloody entertainments of ancient Rome, which continue to fascinate us to this day.