Rodeo
An Anthropologist Looks at the Wild and the Tame
Rodeo people call their sport more a way of life than a way to make a living. Rodeo is, in fact, a rite that not only expresses a way of life but perpetuates it, reaffirming in a ritual contest between man and animal the values of American ranching society. Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence uses an interpretive approach to analyze rodeo as a symbolic pageant that reenacts the winning of the West and as a stylized expression of frontier attitudes toward man and nature. Rodeo constestants are the modern counterparts of the rugged and individualistic cowboys, and the ethos they inherited is marked by ambivalence: they admire the wild and the free yet de…
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- ISBN: 978-0-226-46955-3
- EAN: 9780226469553
- Produktnummer: 1533421
- Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1984
- Seitenangabe: 302 S.
- Masse: H15.0 cm x B23.0 cm x D1.9 cm 512 g
- Auflage: New ed
- Gewicht: 512
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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