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Performance and Power

by Jeffrey C. Alexander

Obama, barack, 1961-Presidents, united states, election, 2008Performance artArt, political aspectsUnited states, politics and government, 2001-2009Power (social sciences)PerformanceLanguage and languages, philosophy

This is a study of the relationship between performance and power. In this volume, Jeffrey Alexander develops a cultural pragmatics that shifts cultural sociology from texts to gestural meanings and examines the elements of social performance.

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Book data: Open Library