Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Introduction: symbolic action in theory and practice: the cultural pragmatics of symbolic action
- 1 Cultural pragmatics: social performance between ritual and strategy
- 2 From the depths of despair: performance, counterperformance, and “September 11”
- 3 The cultural pragmatics of event-ness: the Clinton / Lewinsky affair
- 4 Social dramas, shipwrecks, and cockfights: conflict and complicity in social performance
- 5 Performing a “new” nation: the role of the TRC in South Africa
- 6 Performing opposition or, how social movements move
- 7 Politics as theatre: an alternative view of the rationalities of power
- 8 Symbols in action: Willy Brandt's kneefall at the Warsaw Memorial
- 9 The promise of performance and the problem of order
- 10 Performance art
- 11 Performing the sacred: a Durkheimian perspective on the performative turn in the social sciences
- Index
- Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 December 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Introduction: symbolic action in theory and practice: the cultural pragmatics of symbolic action
- 1 Cultural pragmatics: social performance between ritual and strategy
- 2 From the depths of despair: performance, counterperformance, and “September 11”
- 3 The cultural pragmatics of event-ness: the Clinton / Lewinsky affair
- 4 Social dramas, shipwrecks, and cockfights: conflict and complicity in social performance
- 5 Performing a “new” nation: the role of the TRC in South Africa
- 6 Performing opposition or, how social movements move
- 7 Politics as theatre: an alternative view of the rationalities of power
- 8 Symbols in action: Willy Brandt's kneefall at the Warsaw Memorial
- 9 The promise of performance and the problem of order
- 10 Performance art
- 11 Performing the sacred: a Durkheimian perspective on the performative turn in the social sciences
- Index
- Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Social PerformanceSymbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual, pp. 375Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006