EAS100Y1 Lecture Notes - Performativity, Dowry, Bacon
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Makes relationships: ritual + gender, performativity +gender. Koreans processing change through weddings (microcosm where people think of themselves as gendered beings) Gender is not all fluidity: moment we declare what men/ husbands/ wives are. In a time of change, rituals create fixed meaning (these are kinship relationships), the moment that locks it down. Tradition always remembered and negotiated, always invented and interpreted. City & country are going through change & tradition, both equally real (confucian) ritual. Ritual as intense site of meaning where culture is produced and performed. Heightened, significant moment listen more, say things louder. Platform for pronunciation of truths (selves, gender, class, kinship, ethics, society, etc: homologies carefully tuned up. Korea 20th century trying to figure it out (at a wedding: making a sense of change & tradition, weddings key sites to fix, to know, to be. Rituals of transformation: change from girl to woman, convincing transformation.