"Questo non è uno spettacolo!" : Poetics and Practices of Authenticity, Ritualization, and Tradition in Revitalized European Festivals
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
"Questo non è uno spettacolo!" : Poetics and Practices of Authenticity, Ritualization, and Tradition in Revitalized European Festivals
Original language description
The quotation that introduces the title of this piece is drawn from a record taken during my ethnographic fieldwork in south-central Italy. It is the answer that a local gave when asked about the "nature" of a performance taking place during the carnival festival which at the time constituted the main object of my ethnographic fieldwork (2010-2011). The quoted answer - and the facial expression that accompanied it - revealed the sense of "endangerment" felt, during the ethnographic interaction, by the local, who manifestly considered my nosy, analytic curiosity and my possible scholarly opinions about the festival as a potential "polluter" of a tradition considered authentic, typical, old, unchanged, etc. In this contribution, I intend to present and discuss this as well as another example, taken from another recent ethnographic fieldwork in the Czech Republic (2013-2014), and problematise the ways in which, in some European contexts, sentiments and poetics of authenticity and the past are constructed, experienced and expressed in contemporary ritual performances - especially those labelled as "folkloric" and/or "traditional". I also address the issue of the role and the relevance that ritualisation, in synergy with recent interconnected processes of re-vitalisation, (re-)invention, and reconfiguration of traditions, bears in shaping social dynamics related to cultural heritage, local identities, sentiments of authenticity, and religious (or pseudo-religious) experiences.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60304 - Religious studies
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Expressions of Religion : Ethnography, Performance and the Senses
ISBN
978-3-643-91110-0
Number of pages of the result
24
Pages from-to
201-224
Number of pages of the book
296
Publisher name
LIT Verlag
Place of publication
Berlin, Vienna, Zurich
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