The Festive State: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism as Cultural Performance by David M. Guss

The Festive State: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism as Cultural Performance

David M. Guss

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nonfiction sociology challenging informative medium-paced
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If, as David Guss argues, culture is a contested terrain with constantly changing contours, then festivals are its battlegrounds, where people come to fight and dispute in large acts of public display. Festive behavior, long seen by anthropologist...

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