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Chapter 6. The Making of Community Identity through Historic Festive Practice: The Case of Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Football

© 2019 Channel View Publications Ltd, Bristol/Blue Ridge Summit

© 2019 Channel View Publications Ltd, Bristol/Blue Ridge Summit

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgements vii
  4. The Contributors viii
  5. Chapter 1. Remaking Worlds: Festivals, Tourism and Change 1
  6. Chapter 2. La Cavalcata Sarda: Performing Identities in a Contemporary Sardinian Festival 32
  7. Chapter 3. Gardening the Past and Being in the World: A Popular Celebration of the Abolition of Slavery in La Réunion 46
  8. Chapter 4. Becoming All Indian: Gauchos, Pachamama Queens and Tourists in the Remaking of an Andean Festival 71
  9. Chapter 5. The ‘Freedom of the Slaves to Walk the Streets’: Celebration, Spontaneity and Revelry versus Logistics at the Notting Hill Carnival 84
  10. Chapter 6. The Making of Community Identity through Historic Festive Practice: The Case of Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Football 99
  11. Chapter 7. ‘Days of Radunica’: A Street Festival in the Croatian Town of Split 119
  12. Chapter 8. Enhancing Vitality or Compromising Integrity? Festivals, Tourism and the Complexities of Performing Culture 133
  13. Chapter 9. Creating the ‘Rainbow Nation’: The National Women’s Art Festival in Durban, South Africa 152
  14. Chapter 10. Kyrgyzstan’s Manas Epos Millennium Celebrations: Post-Colonial Resurgence of Turkic Culture and the Marketing of Cultural Tourism 172
  15. Chapter 11. The Camp Oven Festival and Australian Identity 191
  16. Chapter 12. Christmas Markets in the Tyrolean Alps: Representing Regional Traditions in a Newly Created World of Christmas 209
  17. Chapter 13. The Placeless Festival: Identity and Place in the Post-Modern Festival 222
  18. Chapter 14. Gay and Lesbian Festivals: Tourism in the Change from Politics to Party 238
  19. Chapter 15. Mobility, Diaspora and the Hybridisation of Festivity: The Case of the Edinburgh Mela 255
  20. Chapter 16. Taking Québec City: Protest, Carnival and Tourism at the Summit of the Americas 269
  21. Index 284
Festivals, Tourism and Social Change
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