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What does it mean to people around the world to put on costumes to celebrate their heritage, reenact historic events, assume a role on stage, or participate in Halloween or Carnival? Self-consciously set apart from everyday dress, costume marks the divide between ordinary and extraordinary settings and enables the wearer to project a different self or special identity. Pravina Shukla offers richly detailed case studies from the United States, Brazil, and Sweden to show how individuals use costumes for social communication and to express facets of their personalities.
Identity (Psychology) --- Costume --- Personal identity --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Fancy dress --- Motion pictures --- Opera --- Stage costume --- Theater --- Theatrical costume --- Decorative arts --- Clothing and dress --- Social aspects. --- History.
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Christian saints in art. --- Orishas in art. --- Folk art --- Peasant art --- Popular art --- Art --- Art, Primitive --- Orixás in art --- History
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Beadwork, Yoruba --- Broderie de perles yorouba --- Exhibitions --- Expositions --- Exhibitions. --- Beadwork, Yoruba (African people) --- Yoruba beadwork
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Profiles of artists and performers from around the world form the basis of this innovative volume that explores the many ways individuals engage with, carry on, revive, and create tradition. Leading scholars in folklore studies consider how the field has addressed the relationship between performer and tradition and examine theoretical issues involved in fieldwork and the analysis and dissemination of scholarship in the context of relationships with the performers.
Storytelling. --- Tradition (Philosophy) --- Oral tradition. --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Traditionalism (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Story-telling --- Telling of stories --- Oral interpretation --- Children's stories --- Oral interpretation of fiction --- Performance --- Glassie, Henry, --- Glassie, Henry H.,
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