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...KuroDalaiJee This essay focuses on a set of artists' collectives I call “ritual school.” The ritualist collectives distinguished themselves among numerous performance collectives that emerged throughout Japan from the late 1950s to the late 1960s by their antimodern styles, distinct mode...

...David J. Kim On July 13, 1990, a group of shamans innovated and performed a ritual they refer to as the haewŏn chinhon to appease the deceased spirits of Japanese military “comfort women.” Caught unprepared for the large number of spirits who appeared, as well as the accompanying spiritual...

...Namhee Lee 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Between Indeterminacy and Radical Critique: Madang-g˘uk, Ritual, and Protest Namhee Lee The French Revolution is sometimes said to have really begun with the opening night of Beaumarchais’s Marriage...

... . 1992 . Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice . New York: Oxford University Press. Bordo , Susan . 1988 . The Flight to Objectivity: Essays in Cartesianism and Culture . Albany: SUNY Press. Bourdieu , Pierre . 1977 . Outline of a Theory of Practice . Trans. Richard Nice. Cambridge: Cambridge...

...Teri Silvio This article analyzes the structure of feeling embodied in a ritual of theater-going in which women fans of Taiwanese Opera would weep along with actresses singing “crying songs” and rush to the stage to hand them money and other gifts. The ritual was popular only during the opera's...

... than ritualized failure to misread or disavow the ideological positioning that instigates recrimination. Barlow argues that this journal issue is an important opportunity to rethink automatic response and to seek better, more clear and compelling alternatives to repetitive, racialized, nationalist...

... to a performance of reconciliation by turning the narrative into a ritual space in a reinvigorated implementation of Korean funerary tradition. In the process, The Guest both couples and decouples truth and reconciliation. While seeking validity for its version of the Sinchon massacre by offering up its fictional...

... of contingencies but also of precise intellectual choices had made the physical boundaries of the university porous and the ritual identity of its community open to contention. In the May Fourth years, the students explored and expanded the fragmentation of the communitarian bond by stating and living a radical...

... of traditional Japanese ritual and material culture, including tea ceremony, festivals, and pearl divers, while providing an opaque statement on the issue of Japanese whaling. Clocking in at two hours and fifteen minutes, yet containing only a scant few lines of dialogue, the film has received an uneven...

... ritual artifacts and practices reflect and refract political, economic, and health concerns to bridge life and death. [email protected] Copyright 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 COVID-19 paper votive offerings popular religious practices Vietnam ADVANCE PUBLICATION Face Masks...

... of about a hundred people. The ancestral rituals are their most important festival, and no one from outside was allowed to see it. During the festival, the whole island shuts down completely and even the commuter ferry stops. We visited during off...

.... This reduction of the past elides two levels of mari- tal practice: the practice of the text and the practice of ritual. The modern scholar’s grasp of a universal truth allows an undistorted view not only of historical marriage through the text but also...

... is described by TheatreWorks as follows: “This multi-disciplinary, long-term research and development program in theatre, dance, music, visual arts, film and ritual has continued for six years, with laboratories consisting of classes, improvisation...

... and decorating houses, and the establishment of Qiang sacred space and proper rituals. The conflicts between the state-led village housing reconstruction process and local Qiang's experience of place making are discussed in economic, political, cultural, and epistemological terms. According to tradition...

... in Great Britain from the realm of political ritual onto a new domain that might be called political theater or, perhaps more precisely, the pageantry of British imperialism.5 David Cannadine has argued that by 1820 attacks on courtly...

... are primarily dedicated to aesthetic entertainments, while in Shenzhen, stages are primarily used for political rituals. Consider the following statistics: At the turn of the millennium, Houston had forty- three theaters producing dramas...

... on behalf of society and because it is characterized by a simultaneous commitment to individual liberty and collective strength. Yet its holistic ethos and ritualism are highly reminiscent of the traditional Confucian emphasis on the reci...

... fair under way by 1996. Though worshipping the Dragon Tablet is a very local and popular form of ritual, the organization of the temple fair by the association is meticulous. Traditionally, the Dragon Tablet Association has selected officers...

... amphitheater, ritual practice and mass-media spectacle - seem irreconcilable. Nonetheless, I shall argue that they cannot be understood as entirely dis- tinct. Both have emerged from the dynamic interplay of modern Japanese...

... 284 young Japanese girl, who sees the procession as “strange.” While translating the funeral procession into language and concepts comprehensible to the Japanese readership, the author also presents, in parallel, how the ritual...