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Beneath the Laarve: Masking during the Basel Carnival of Fasnacht (Faasnacht)

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F23%3A10469646" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/23:10469646 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Bs.ehbRoXz" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Bs.ehbRoXz</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13591835221149681" target="_blank" >10.1177/13591835221149681</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Beneath the Laarve: Masking during the Basel Carnival of Fasnacht (Faasnacht)

  • Original language description

    Describing the historical development of the mask (Laarve) 2 within the carnival tradition of the Basel Fasnacht (Faasnacht, Switzerland) during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this article offers a case study of the so-called reflexive turn in late modern (&apos;post-traditional&apos;) societies. Drawing on the concept of ritual reflexivity, we argue that the gradual development of the Fasnacht masks into oversized constructions covering the ritualist&apos;s whole head (Laarve) went hand in hand with the development of various other ritual mechanisms aimed at facilitating within the ritual framework a meditative, inward-oriented stance (enstasis). 3 This is especially interesting as carnivals tend to be associated with precisely the opposite dynamics: transcending social norms through the celebration of excess and inebriation which, in its extreme forms, may lead to ekstasis (or at least a headache). The described ritual elements are interpreted as a series of mirroring mechanisms nested within one another. The ritual handling of the Laarve by the ritualists (its donning and taking off at regular intervals) is then understood simultaneously as a facilitator and a marker fuelling and isolating individual phases of an otherwise non-discrete reflexive process. Based on first-hand accounts of ritualists&apos; experiences of mask-wearing, we will show how Basel Fasnacht walks a tightrope between &apos;modelling&apos; and &apos;mirroring&apos; societal, communal and idiosyncratic levels of meaning-making.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    60304 - Religious studies

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>

  • Continuities

    P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2023

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Journal of Material Culture

  • ISSN

    1359-1835

  • e-ISSN

    1460-3586

  • Volume of the periodical

    28

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    3

  • Country of publishing house

    GB - UNITED KINGDOM

  • Number of pages

    28

  • Pages from-to

    451-478

  • UT code for WoS article

    000921235000001

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85146716527