Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction ix
4. 1 From Carnivalesque to Ritualesque: Public Ritual and the Theater of the Street 1
5. 2 Locality, Spectacle, State Politics: Comparative Study of Carnival Traditions in Renaissance Nuremberg and Modern Trinidad 16
6. 3 Conflict Displays in the Black Atlantic 49
7. 4 Protesting and Grieving: Ritual, Politics, and the Effects of Scale 66
8. 5 Political Percussions: Cork Brass Bands and the Irish Revolution, 1914–1922 93
9. 6 ¡Que Bonita Bandera! Place, Space, and Identity as Expressed with the Puerto Rican Flag 113
10. 7 The Lives of Processions in Bali and Lombok, Indonesia 133
11. 8 The Anthropology of Festivals: Changes in Theory and Practice 151
12. 9 The Politics of Cultural Promotion: The Umthetho Festival of Malawi’s Northern Ngoni 164
13. 10 Music as Activist Spectacle: AIDS, Breast Cancer, and LGBT Choral Singing 189
14. 11 The “Days of Scanzano”: The Carnivalesque and the Ritualesque in an Antinuclear Protest 205
15. 12 “Some Are Born Green, Some Achieve Greenness”: Protest Theater and Environmental Activism 222
16. 13 The Material Culture of Remembrance in Ireland: Roadside Memorials as Contested Spaces 239
17. 14 The Politics of Junk: Social Protest, “Outsider” Environments, and Ritualesque Display at the Heidelberg Project in Detroit 254
18. About the Authors 278
19. Index 283