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Kings for three days : the play of race and gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian festival

Title: Kings for three days : the play of race and gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian festival / Jean Muteba Rahier.
Author: Rahier, Jean Muteba, 1959-
Publication: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]

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Description

xii, 197 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"With its rich mix of cultures, European influences, colonial tensions, and migration from bordering nations, Ecuador has long drawn the interest of ethnographers, historians, and political scientists. In this book, Jean Muteba Rahier delivers a highly detailed, thought-provoking examination of the racial, sexual, and social complexities of Afro-Ecuadorian culture, as revealed through the annual Festival of the Kings. During the Festival, the people of various villages and towns of Esmeraldas--Ecuador's province most associated with blackness--engage in celebratory and parodic portrayals, often donning masks, cross-dressing, and disguising themselves as blacks, indigenous people, and whites, in an obvious critique of local, provincial, and national white, white-mestizo, and light-mulatto elites. Rahier shows that this festival, as performed in different locations, reveals each time a specific location's perspective on the larger struggles over identity, class, and gender relations in the racial-spatial order of Esmeraldas and of the Ecuadorian nation in general." -- Publisher's description.

Series Statement

Interpretations of culture in the new millennium

Uniform Title

Interpretations of culture in the new millennium.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index.

Contents

Setting up the stage : contextualizing the Afro-Esmeraldian festival of the kings -- The village of Santo Domingo de Onzole and the period of preparation of the festival of the kings : the centrality of sexual dichotomy and role reversal -- The festival of the kings in Santo Domingo de Onzole -- The festival of the kings in La Tola -- Race, sexuality, and gender as they relate to the festival of the kings -- Performances and contexts of the play in January 2003 -- Conclusion : from the centrality of place in Esmeraldian ethnography to theoretical and methodological considerations for the study of festivities -- Glossary of Esmeraldian Spanish terms.

Call Number

Sc E 13-1134

ISBN

9780252037511 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252037510 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252079016 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252079019 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780252094729 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2012040474

OCLC

814455408

Author

Rahier, Jean Muteba, 1959-

Title

Kings for three days : the play of race and gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian festival / Jean Muteba Rahier.

Publisher

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Interpretations of culture in the new millennium

Interpretations of culture in the new millennium.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index.

Research Call Number

Sc E 13-1134

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