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Escorting Tradition

其他書名	The Contemporary Performance of Afropolitanism in Zambia's Traditional Ceremonies
出版	Harvard University, 2008
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TZm_nAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Since Zambia's return to multi-party politics in 1991 there has been a drastic increase in annual cultural festivals. These events, which amount to over sixty, are patronized by chiefs in conjunction with cultural associations and are gazetted by the Department of Cultural Services. While many scholars view these ceremonies as folklorized pseudo-culture, I frame them as socio-aesthetic, cosmopolitan performances that grow out of Zambia's history of cross-regional engagements. Considering theories of performance and the promiscuity of tradition, I develop a performative ontology of tradition that involves communal accountability and the escorting of culture rather than a top-down invention of tradition. In Chapter One I study Mwata Kazembe's beaded crowns that are performed at three Mutomboko ceremonies, demonstrating how objects and their meanings are also escorted, or "carried-along" by communities. I argue that cultural objects and styles are profoundly linked to corporeal movement, making them susceptible to the contingency of performance, creating situational readings. Similarly, in Chapter Two, I examine Soli song and dance, arguing that a visual interpretation of the ceremonial dress of girl initiates cannot exist without a consideration of the full repertoire of dress in relation to bodily movement and sound.