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“Los Pastores” and the gifting of performance
Author(s) -
FLORES RICHARD R.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1994.21.2.02a00030
Subject(s) - drama , dialectic , reproduction , situated , production (economics) , sociology , humanities , social production , art , literature , philosophy , computer science , social science , theology , economics , biology , ecology , macroeconomics , artificial intelligence
This study of Los Pastores, a folk drama performed in San Antonio, Texas, argues that the struggle over the production and reproduction of culture is situated in the emergent social formation evoked through performance. As such, the interrelationship between gifting and labor constitutes a communicative dialectic upon which an analysis of expressive culture, one based on performance as production, is centered. [ performance, cultural production, gifting , mexicano expressive culture ]