Description: Kings for Three Days : The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival, Hardcover by Rahier, Jean Muteba, ISBN 0252037510, ISBN-13 9780252037511, Brand New, 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--Ecuador's 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 location's 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
Publication Year: 2013
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Gender Studies, Holidays / Christian, Black Studies (Global), Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions, Latin America / South America
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17 Oz
Author: Jean Muteba Rahier
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science, History
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Interp Culture New Millennium Ser.
Format: Hardcover
