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Signs of War and Peace - Jack Santino

Signs of War and Peace

Social Conflict and the Use of Public Symbols in Northern Ireland

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Buch | Hardcover
160 Seiten
2002
St Martin's Press (Verlag)
978-0-312-23640-3 (ISBN)
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Focuses on the role public display plays in the conflict in Northern Ireland, examining its nature and relationships to class based aesthetics, tradition, and popular style. In so doing, the book identifies an underlying symbolism and helps to explain the intensity of the conflict.
This text focuses on the role public display plays in the conflict in Northern Ireland. In doing so, it ranges freely over other times, places, and events that shed light on the social and political processes and dynamics involved in public display traditions, such as the Saint Patrick's Day parades in Boston, Massachusetts, and the popular spontaneous shrines to Lady Diana in London. The book is about the nature of public display, its relationships to class based aesthetics, tradition, and popular style. It is also about contest, conflict, and civil war, and the ways the former are intimately intertwined with the latter, both in Northern Ireland and elsewhere throughout the world. The work is interdisciplinary, combining ethnographic, anthropological, folkloristic, and performance studies approaches. The manuscript benefits from large amount of field work in Ireland, and as a result contains both ethnographic data and revealing interviews with many people in Northern Ireland who have participated in the display events Santino seeks to analyze.
The perspective that Santino offers helps to explain the intensity of the conflict as well as the origination, motivations, and justifications of bonfires, murals, commemorative displays and parades that symbolically articulate what he terms the "dual master narratives" that underlie and in many ways help to articulate the parameters of that conflict.

JACK SANTINO is Professor of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University. He is the author of five books and is the creator of two documentary films, one of which, Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle, won four Emmy awards. Santino is also the editor of the Journal of American Folklore.

Introduction Ritual Display and Presentation Assemblage Spontaneous Shrines and Rituals of Death and Politics Conflicts Shared Style and Paradox Epilogue

Erscheint lt. Verlag 11.2.2002
Zusatzinfo biography
Verlagsort New York, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 216 mm
Gewicht 310 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Naturwissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 0-312-23640-9 / 0312236409
ISBN-13 978-0-312-23640-3 / 9780312236403
Zustand Neuware
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