THEA 3331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Casta, Theatricality, Surname
Document Summary
Performance can be used as a medium of constructing/deconstructing colonial values. Religious rituals, aesthetic values, political display etc. are all active forms of indigenous communities expressing whim they are. Curcio-nagy: ritual was the symbolic expression of the new set of native ideas. Performance: ritualized behaviour conditioned and/or permeated by play. May shape interpretations of the society"s past. Masks social divisions by seeming to unite disparate groups in shared ritual. Emerges through the way people cope with the demands and challenges of life. A kind of collective identity that is socially constructed and defined within a particular social space. The diffusion of national ideologies: the idea that we are bounded by legal obligations and we get the benefits, it is related to literature, art and theatre. The transmission of values and norms through government institution and practices. Development or imposition of a standard language. Processes of inclusion of some groups and of processes of exclusion of other groups .
