Where the wild things are now
Subtitle: domestication reconsidered
By: edited by Rebecca Cassidy and Molly Mullin.
Contributors: Cassidy, Rebecca.; Mullin, Molly H., 1960-; Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
Series: Wenner-Gren international symposium series; Wenner-Gren international series
Publisher: Berg; Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781845201524; 9781845201531
Subjects: Domestication -- Congresses; Domestic animals -- Congresses; Plants, Cultivated -- Congresses; Human-animal relationships -- Congresses; Human-plant relationships -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "Cultural theory has taken a 'performative turn,' shifting its focus from the textual nature of the world to how the social world is narrated, its subjects are subjected and its relations are ritually enacted." "The rise of performativity in cultural theory - spearheaded in many ways by feminist theory - has profound implications for the way we think about ehtics and politics. Indeed, as it concerns all aspects of 'difference', it reshapes the ways we think about the continuities and interruptions of social life itself." "Culture and Performance explores the development and direction of the notion of performativity. It interrogates the idea of subjectivity, the possibility of ethics and, beyond this, it explores new ways of thinking political imaginations and possibilities. It traces the implications of the concept, and assesses the critique that is emerging from a renewed interest in creativity."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.