The Globalization of Rural Plays in the Twenty-First Century
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- 2022
Summary
The Globalization of Rural Plays in the Twenty-First Century excavates the neglected ideological substratum of peasant folk plays. By focusing on northeastern Romania and southwest Ukraine—two of the most ruralized regions in Europe—this work reveals the complex landscape of peasant plays and the essential role they perform in shaping local culture, economy, and social life. The rapid demise of these practices and the creation of preservation programs is analyzed in the context of the corrosive effects of global capitalism and the processes of globalization, urbanization, mass-mediatization, and heritagization. Just like peasants in search of better resources, rural plays “migrate" from their villages of origin into the urban, modern, and more dynamic world, where they become more visible and are both appreciated and exploited as forms of transnational, intangible cultural heritage.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2022
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-6669-1543-3
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-6669-1544-0
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 328
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Table of contents
- Contents No access
- List of Figures and Tables No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
- Heleșteni Community and Its Plays No access Pages 19 - 88
- Ruginoasa Community and Its Plays No access Pages 89 - 134
- Rural Customary Communities1 and Their System of Values2 No access Pages 135 - 180
- Portraying of Peasantry and Rural Plays in Peasant Studies and Mummers’ Plays Studies No access Pages 181 - 214
- The Evolution of Play/Game-From Rural Plays to Video Games No access Pages 215 - 256
- From Community Plays to Transnational Cultural Heritage No access Pages 257 - 280
- Afterword No access Pages 281 - 290
- Appendix I No access Pages 291 - 294
- Appendix II No access Pages 295 - 300
- Appendix III No access Pages 301 - 304
- Bibliography No access Pages 305 - 314
- Index No access Pages 315 - 326
- About the Author No access Pages 327 - 328





