Social Performance

Book Overview

Taking a cultural pragmatic approach to meaning, the contributors suggest a new way of looking at the continuum that stretches between ritual and strategic action. They do so by developing, for the first time, a model of social performance. This volume offers the first systematic and analytical framework that transforms the metaphor into a social theory and applies it to a series of facinating large-scale social and cultural processes--from September 11 and the Clinton/Lewinsky Affair, to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Willy Brandt's famous kneefall before the Warsaw momument.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052167462X
• ISBN13: 9780521674621
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"