Cities of the Dead : : Circum-Atlantic Performance / / Joseph Roach.
In the early eighteenth century, a delegation of Iroquois visited Britain, exciting the imagination of the London crowds with images of the “feathered people” and warlike “Mohocks.” Today, performing in a popular Afrodiasporic tradition, “Mardi Gras Indians” or “Black Masking Indians” take to the st...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE TO THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- 1. INTRODUCTION: HISTORY,MEMORY,AND PERFORMANCE
- 2. ECHOES IN THE BONE
- 3. BETTERTON’S FUNERAL
- 4. FEATHERED PEOPLES
- 5. ONE BLOOD
- 6. CARNIVAL AND THE LAW
- EPILOGUE: NEW FRONTIERS
- REFERENCES
- INDEX