Ritual SoundingsPub Date : 2019-03-01DOI: 10.5622/illinois/9780252042294.003.0003
Sarah A. Weiss
{"title":"Wedding Lamentation","authors":"Sarah A. Weiss","doi":"10.5622/illinois/9780252042294.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042294.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores wedding lamentation across cultures. Case studies from United Kingdom, Greece, Russia, and Northern India rely on data drawn from ethnographic studies and those from Finland, India, and Italy are historical, based on data drawn from documentary film, literature, and song. Examining similar phenomena occurring in different cultures, religions, and historical periods demonstrates the similar ways in which women’s performance at ritual events in different cultural and historical settings plays an important role in localizing world religions.","PeriodicalId":413477,"journal":{"name":"Ritual Soundings","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126218620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ritual SoundingsPub Date : 2019-03-01DOI: 10.5406/j.ctvfp6304.10
Sarah A. Weiss
{"title":"Transgression and Tarantella among Catholic Women in Calabria","authors":"Sarah A. Weiss","doi":"10.5406/j.ctvfp6304.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctvfp6304.10","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on two manifestations of the tarantella tradition in Catholic Southern Italy, exploring not only the connections between them but also the ways in which performance mediates the ambiguity of the social positions of the women who dance tarantella in their different contexts. The pilgrimage to the Madonna della Montagne in Polsi, Italy is described and contextualized in the history of tarantism from Saint Paul to contemporary stage performances as well as its causes and cures through the performance of tarantella music. The chapter relies on the ethnographic work of Marta Porcino, Karen Lüdtke; and Goffredo Plastino.","PeriodicalId":413477,"journal":{"name":"Ritual Soundings","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129659340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ritual SoundingsPub Date : 2019-03-01DOI: 10.5622/illinois/9780252042294.003.0005
Sarah A. Weiss
{"title":"Revelry and Resistance","authors":"Sarah A. Weiss","doi":"10.5622/illinois/9780252042294.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042294.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter analyses women’s use of mockery and ridicule in prenuptial performance among Trinidadian and Bihari Hindus; Canadian-Moroccan and Bulgarian-Israeli Sephardic Jews; Romanian Orthodox Christians; and Muslim Tuareg smith praise singers. Following James Scott, this chapter argues that prenuptial mockery and ridicule function as weapons of the weak or the disempowered, asserting resistance to the change and loss that accompany marriage while helping to alleviate anxiety through momentary empowerment, familiarizing new social contexts for the bride and female relatives through humor and levity.","PeriodicalId":413477,"journal":{"name":"Ritual Soundings","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116167359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Girls’s Poetry and Social Critique at Muslim Berber Weddings","authors":"Sarah A. Weiss","doi":"10.5406/j.ctvfp6304.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5406/j.ctvfp6304.9","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter is the first of two in-depth explorations into the history and cultural background of a single women’s traditions in which the performance context can be understood to shield women from the criticism their actions might otherwise attract. This chapter examines the poetic performances of Berber girls in Riffian communities in rural Morocco detailing the ways in which their performances offer individual girls the opportunity to speak their minds on issues and concerns that matter deeply to them and about which they cannot speak in any other context. In the process, the polemics of musical performance in Islamic contexts and feminist interpretations of some Islamic constructions of gender are explored. The ethnographic material for this chapter is drawn from the fieldwork of Terri Joseph Brint, Katherine Hoffman, and Jane Goodman.","PeriodicalId":413477,"journal":{"name":"Ritual Soundings","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131713146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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