The Festive State - Race, Ethnicity, & Nationalism as Cultural Performance

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Variations on a Venezuelan Quartet 1(23) The Popular Terrain 3(4) Cultural Performance and the Production of Meaning 7(5) Traditionalizing the Traditional and the Ideology of Folklore 12(6) The Venezuelan Quartet 18(6) The Selling of San Juan: The Performance of History in an Afro-Venezuelan Community 24(36) San Juan Bautista 25(8) San Juan Nacional 33(4) San Juan Monumental 37(6) San Juan Cimarron 43(9) San Juan Congo 52(8) ``Indianness'' and the Construction of Ethnicity in the Day of the Monkey 60(30) The Performance of Ethnicity 60(3) Santo Domingo de Guzman 63(2) The Dance of the Monkey 65(7) The Feast of Fools 72(5) The Sultan of the Guarapiche 77(13) ``Full Speed Ahead with Venezuela'': The Tobacco Industry, Nationalism, and the Business of Popular Culture 90(39) The Origins of a Foundation 94(9) The Workshops: ``Where the Past and the Future Come Together'' 103(13) The Image of Culture 116(13) From Village Square to Opera House: Tamunangue and the Theater of Domination 129(44) The Politics of Performance 129(5) The Choreography of Mestizaje 134(14) The Choreography of Race and the Dance of the Blacks 148(6) The Theater of Domination 154(19) Notes 173(34) Bibliography 207(24) Index 231