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Masking and Power: Carnival and Popular Culture in the Caribbean
Masking and Power Carnival and Popular Culture in the Caribbean
Author: Gerard Aching
Does the mask reveal more than it conceals? What, this book asks, becomes visible and invisible in the masking practiced in Caribbean cultures-not only in the familiar milieu of the carnival but in political language, social conduct, and cultural expressions that mimic, misrepresent, and mislead? Focusing on masking as a socially significant pra...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780816640171
ISBN-10: 0816640173
Publication Date: 11/2002
Pages: 200
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Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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