Traditions of subversion and the subversion of tradition :
Brigthman, Robert
Traditions of subversion and the subversion of tradition : cultural cristicism in Maidu clown performances. - Arlington American Antropological Association 1999
En: American Anthropologist. -- Vol. 101 No. 2 (junio 1999), pp. 272-287. ISSN 00027294
Reflecting changing disciplinary orientation, recent perspectives on non-Western ritual clowns have rejected earlier functionalist interpretations and foregrounded themes of criticism, deconstruction, and subversion. In this essay, I interpret a ritual clown performance formerly practiced by the Northwestern Maidu of California both as an objectification, by way of symbolic inversion, of valorized cultural forms and as a metasociological discourse on the relationship between egoistic dispositions and normative disciplinary constraints. The interpretation suggests that functional and subversive meanings and effects are fusional rather than opposing elements in such performances and that the Maidu clown is best understood in relation to quotidien modes of deviance and to the diverse social locations represented in his audience.
CIVILIZACIONES
INDIGENAS--RELIGION Y CULTURA--ESTADOS UNIDOS
Traditions of subversion and the subversion of tradition : cultural cristicism in Maidu clown performances. - Arlington American Antropological Association 1999
En: American Anthropologist. -- Vol. 101 No. 2 (junio 1999), pp. 272-287. ISSN 00027294
Reflecting changing disciplinary orientation, recent perspectives on non-Western ritual clowns have rejected earlier functionalist interpretations and foregrounded themes of criticism, deconstruction, and subversion. In this essay, I interpret a ritual clown performance formerly practiced by the Northwestern Maidu of California both as an objectification, by way of symbolic inversion, of valorized cultural forms and as a metasociological discourse on the relationship between egoistic dispositions and normative disciplinary constraints. The interpretation suggests that functional and subversive meanings and effects are fusional rather than opposing elements in such performances and that the Maidu clown is best understood in relation to quotidien modes of deviance and to the diverse social locations represented in his audience.
CIVILIZACIONES
INDIGENAS--RELIGION Y CULTURA--ESTADOS UNIDOS