Kings for Three Days : The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Fest...

Description: Kings for Three Days : The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival, Paperback by Rahier, Jean Muteba, ISBN 0252079019, ISBN-13 9780252079016, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

With its rich mix of cultures, European influences, colonial tensions, and migration from bordering nations, Ecuador has long drawn the interest of ethnographers, historians, and political scientists. In this book, Jean Muteba Rahier delivers a highly detailed, thought-provoking examination of the racial, sexual, and social complexities of Afro-Ecuadorian culture, as revealed through the annual Festival of the Kings. During the Festival, the people of various villages and towns of Esmeraldas--Ecuadors province most associated with blackness--engage in celebratory and parodic portrayals, often donning masks, cross-dressing, and disguising themselves as blacks, indigenous people, and whites, in an obvious critique of local, provincial, and national white, white-mestizo, and light-mulatto elites. Rahier shows that this festival, as performed in different locations, reveals each time a specific locations perspective on the larger struggles over identity, class, and gender relations in the racial-spacial order of Esmeraldas, and of the Ecuadorian nation in general.

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Book Title: Kings for Three Days : The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecu

Number of Pages: 216 Pages

Publication Name: Kings for Three Days : the Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival

Language: English

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Subject: Gender Studies, Holidays / Christian, Black Studies (Global), Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions, Latin America / South America

Item Height: 0.8 in

Publication Year: 2013

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 12.9 Oz

Item Length: 9 in

Author: Jean Muteba Rahier

Subject Area: Religion, Social Science, History

Item Width: 6 in

Series: Interp Culture New Millennium Ser.

Format: Trade Paperback