cultural contestation

[Mark Pedelty]

Hi David,

That is essentially the basis of my book, Musical Ritual in Mexico City:
>From the Aztec to NAFTA. I look at ritual as the arena for cultural
contestation. There might be some useful citations in there. I strongly
recommend David Kertzer's Ritual, Politics, and Power.

Mark


> From: David Boromisza-Habashi <dbh at COLORADO.EDU>
> Reply-To: Ethnography of Communication <ETHNOCOMM at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:11:22 -0600
> To: <ETHNOCOMM at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
> Subject: cultural contestation
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I am currently working on a paper looking at practices of cultural
> contestation. The paper focuses on the dynamics and social
> consequences of the contestation of local communicative resources,
> particularly folk terms (concepts) for communicative action.
> 
> The concept of "cultural contestation" seems to bring at least two
> related but different types of discourse into view:
> (1) discourse that features multiple parties mobilizing divergent
> interpretations of the same term for communicative action in direct
> disagreement with one another about the meaning of the term, and
> (2) discourse that involves participants using a widely contested
> term(s) for communicative action to comment on / evaluate someone
> else's communicative conduct.
> 
> I have a few studies in mind (e.g., Katriel's study of the
> contestation of the "dugri" style in contemporary Israeli society;
> Bloch & Lemish's work on Israeli women's resistance to the
> characterization of their conduct as "being a freierit" or 'sucker;'
> Tracy's analysis of charging others with "undemocratic" conduct in
> U.S. school board meetings) but I could use more references.
> 
> Thank you in advance for any on- or off-list advice.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> David Boromisza-Habashi, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Communication
> University of Colorado
> 270 UCB
> Boulder, CO 80309-0270, USA
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