Kings for three days [electronic resource] : the play of race and gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian festival / Jean Muteba Rahier.
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TextSeries: Interpretations of culture in the new millenniumPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xii, 197 pages :) illustrationsISBN: - 9780252094729
- Sex role -- Ecuador -- Esmeraldas (Province)
- Epiphany -- Ecuador -- Esmeraldas (Province)
- Blacks -- Race identity -- Ecuador -- Esmeraldas (Province)
- Blacks -- Ecuador -- Esmeraldas (Province) -- Rites and ceremonies
- Esmeraldas (Ecuador : Province) -- Social life and customs
- Esmeraldas (Ecuador : Province) -- Race relations
- 305.8009866/35 23
- F3741.E6 R34 2013
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-194) and index.
Setting up the stage : contextualizing the Afro-Esmeraldian festival of the kings -- The village of Santo Domingo de Onzole and the period of preparation of the festival of the kings : the centrality of sexual dichotomy and role reversal -- The festival of the kings in Santo Domingo de Onzole -- The festival of the kings in La Tola -- Race, sexuality, and gender as they relate to the festival of the kings -- Performances and contexts of the play in January 2003 -- Conclusion : from the centrality of place in Esmeraldian ethnography to theoretical and methodological considerations for the study of festivities -- Glossary of Esmeraldian Spanish terms.
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