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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 143–171.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Deepa Kumar This article examines “security rituals,” routinized and repetitive performances of security practices, and their role in reproducing US nationalism and militarism. It argues that the security ritual as a form emerges out of the Cold War. Its revival in the war on terror era, which has...
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Public Culture (2018) 30 (1): 1–2.
Published: 01 January 2018
... our understanding of knowledge production and material production. Deepa Kumar continues our empirical focus on the United States, but moves us from World War II to the “war on terror,” examining how security rituals produce particular forms of US nationalism. Using Michael Billig’s notion of “hot...
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Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 83–88.
Published: 01 January 1992
... every five years and
routinely “won” by the government party by more or less the same percent-
age. Perhaps because of their heightened regularity, these elections are
framed within a rhetoric of ritual and called, in an almost Bakhtinian fash-
ion, “Pesta Demokrasi”: “Festivals...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2007) 19 (3): 461–482.
Published: 01 September 2007
... in for the collective existence of
the nation.
In Israel the security check has emerged as a key ritual for resolving and polic-
ing the potentially deadly intertwining of national conflict and everyday life, col-
lective crisis...
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Public Culture (2013) 25 (2 70): 209–221.
Published: 01 March 2013
...
A distinction that matters for my examination is between ritualized spaces we Does the City
recognize as such and spaces either that are not ritualized or that we fail to recog- Have Speech?
nize as such. Much of what we experience as urbanity in our Western European
tradition is a set of practices...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2006) 18 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 May 2006
...
4 (1982): 65. This view, it is worth pointing out, is quite common even among scholars of religion
within the academy. See, for example, the anthropologist Maurice Bloch’s oft-cited analysis of reli-
gious ritual as a means to securing...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1998) 10 (2): 443–449.
Published: 01 May 1998
... to the
domain of mass mediation and narrativity. The third view, so widespread that
it is hard to find an original author for it, is that modern nation-states produce
this surplus of affect by various kinds of rituals and symbols (flags, holidays...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1996) 9 (1): 55–68.
Published: 01 January 1996
....
Thus the incapacity of the new state to funnel employment, and its concomi-
tant difficulty in securing key ritual spaces, added to the severity of the current
economic crisis, creating an image of a state that is controlled by and used...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1992) 5 (1): 67–74.
Published: 01 January 1992
... describes how this very process of ratification becomes itself
the site for the subtle de-authorization of state power that takes place
through its authorizing rituals, how the vulgarity of the production is ex-
posed, how the language of the ritual is altered through intonation and se...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1999) 11 (1): 269–293.
Published: 01 January 1999
...” as a degraded baseline,
or zero degree, of relationship, a fact that is visible in the day-to-day manage-
ment of social relations.
Specifically, da Matta focuses on an urban ritual that he called the Voçe sabe
com quem esta falando? (Do you know who you are talking to a phrase used to
I am grateful...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1997) 9 (2): 161–188.
Published: 01 May 1997
... by
“domesticating” it, by creating its discursive “fetish” located in the realm of rid-
icule where it can be tamed and rendered powerless (p. 12). Such ridicule occurs
precisely when official signifiers (men of power, slogans, and rituals) perform...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2008) 20 (2): 375–394.
Published: 01 May 2008
... to be impossible, or
irrational for a society based on a so-called peasant economy.4 Social scientists
like Walt Whitman Rostow — national security affairs adviser under the Ken-
nedy and Johnson administrations — believed they were fighting against a “sub-
sistence economy,” a “traditional society...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1997) 10 (1): 201–210.
Published: 01 January 1997
... for experiencing pilgrimage. Prior to the sacred journey itself,
pilgrims use cassettes to experience the soundscape of the sacred site, for exam-
ple, by ritualizing the cassette with the specific recordings of basilica bells that
make it possible to enter the sonic space of the basilica. Upon completing...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2020) 32 (2 (91)): 415–422.
Published: 01 May 2020
... not fit into the categories. These are dirt, and they invoke fears of pollution. In challenging the very structure of the classification system, they threaten the basis of social order. Their danger can be dispelled, however, through rituals of purification. The subject of Purity and Danger...
Journal Article
Public Culture (1998) 10 (2): 225–247.
Published: 01 May 1998
.... 1995 . “Consuming Counterrevolution: The Ritual and Culture of Cannibalism in Wuxuan, Guangxi, China, May to July 1968.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 37 ( 1 ): 136 -172. Tambiah , Stanley J. 1996 . Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South...
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Public Culture (2004) 16 (2): 209–238.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Mayfair Mei-hui Yang © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Mayfair Mei-hui Yang teaches in the anthropology and religious studies departments at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is working on a book manuscript titled “Re-Enchanting Modernity:Sovereignty, Popular Rituals...
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (3 (77)): 449–485.
Published: 01 September 2015
...) the optimization of humanity through technology-driven development and order keeping rather than through a territorial or market-driven will to imperial domination. I analyze this “positive science of persistent war” as a routinely ritualized praxis, manifest in repetitive play and more or less official training...
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Public Culture (1994) 7 (1): 249–274.
Published: 01 January 1994
... form
the core of a new informational elite. But concurrent with the growth of this
elite is the emetgence of a disenfranchised working class without benefits, health
protection, or job security. Among them can be counted an army of female...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2002) 14 (1): 91–124.
Published: 01 January 2002
... benefits, of which security is the most important.
The underlying idea of moral order stresses the rights and obligations that
individuals have in regard to one another, even prior to or outside of the political
bond. Political obligations are seen as an extension or application of these more...
Journal Article
Public Culture (2002) 14 (1): 191–213.
Published: 01 January 2002
... is a crucial aspect not only of modern social imaginaries, but
also of capital itself.
The concept of performativity has been very prominent in contemporary dis-
cussions of personal and sexual identity. But it is another line of inquiry, com-
prising anthropological studies of ritual and magic (Tambiah...
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