Rites of the Republic: Citizens' Theater and the Politics of Culture in Southern France
Specificity of place and the emplacement of politics are key themes running through Mark Ingram’s ethnography of civic-minded theater in southern France. This multi-sited study juxtaposes the Theatre Rural d'Animation Culturelle (TRAC), an amateur troupe from the Vaucluse with a strong rural id...
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| description | Specificity of place and the emplacement of politics are key themes running through Mark Ingram’s ethnography of civic-minded theater in southern France. This multi-sited study juxtaposes the Theatre Rural d'Animation Culturelle (TRAC), an amateur troupe from the Vaucluse with a strong rural identity, and the Friche, professional theatrical artists who identify with the urban setting of cosmopolitan Marseille. Comparing these groups, Ingram develops a broader perspective both on the local mediation of a national politics of culture and on the shifting political significance of territoriality in the experience of place. Drawing on research spanning two decades, he is well positioned to address how these cultural producers creatively respond to a perceived crisis of post-colonial French identity and to processes of Europeanisation and globalization. The result is a widely accessible ethnography that will appeal to scholars of contemporary France both inside and outside the field of anthropology. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/820152022-10-01T09:52:49Z Rites of the Republic: Citizens' Theater and the Politics of Culture in Southern France Jones, Graham M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program Jones, Graham M. Specificity of place and the emplacement of politics are key themes running through Mark Ingram’s ethnography of civic-minded theater in southern France. This multi-sited study juxtaposes the Theatre Rural d'Animation Culturelle (TRAC), an amateur troupe from the Vaucluse with a strong rural identity, and the Friche, professional theatrical artists who identify with the urban setting of cosmopolitan Marseille. Comparing these groups, Ingram develops a broader perspective both on the local mediation of a national politics of culture and on the shifting political significance of territoriality in the experience of place. Drawing on research spanning two decades, he is well positioned to address how these cultural producers creatively respond to a perceived crisis of post-colonial French identity and to processes of Europeanisation and globalization. The result is a widely accessible ethnography that will appeal to scholars of contemporary France both inside and outside the field of anthropology. 2013-11-07T15:42:38Z 2013-11-07T15:42:38Z 2012-03 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/BookReview 00027294 1548-1433 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82015 Jones, Graham M., review of “Rites of the Republic: Citizens' Theater and the Politics of Culture in Southern France.” by Mark Ingram. American Anthropologist 114, no. 1 (March 19, 2012): 164-165. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6435-7066 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2011.01413_8.x American Anthropologist Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Wiley |
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