Ecotourism and Cultural Production: An Anthropology of Indigenous Spaces in Ecuador by VeronicaDavidov. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 288 pp
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 117, Heft 4, S. 824-825
ISSN: 1548-1433
3 Ergebnisse
Sortierung:
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 117, Heft 4, S. 824-825
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: Food and foodways: explorations in the history & culture of human nourishment, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 53-71
ISSN: 1542-3484
Celebrities and popular icons are increasingly ubiquitous figures of a 21st century postmodern world. Some, in death, blur age-old distinctions of sanctification and trespass on sacred ground long held exclusively by religious saints. An emerging continuum is transforming that sacred arena and raising a number of important issues, including the nature of the relationships between the worshipped and the worshipful and the types of institutions that sustain them. The Making of Saints: Contesting Sacred Ground investigates a number of religious leaders, healers, folk saints, and popular icons in