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"Signs of War and Peace focuses on the role public display plays in the conflict in Northern Ireland. In doing so, it ranges freely over other times, places, and events that shed light on the social and political processes and dynamics involved in public display traditions, such as the Saint Patrick's Day parades in Boston, Massachusetts and the popular spontaneous shrines to Lady Diana in London.
The book is about the nature of public display and its relationships to class-based aesthetics, tradition, and popular style. It is also about contest, conflict, and civil war, and the ways in which the former are intimately intertwined with the latter, both in Northern Ireland and elsewhere throughout the world. The work is interdisciplinary, combining ethnographic, anthropological, folkloristic, and performance studies approaches.
The book benefits from a large amount of field work by the author in Northern Ireland, and as a result contains both ethnographic data and revealing interviews with many people who have participated in the display events Santino analyzes.
The perspective that Santino offers helps to explain the intensity of the conflict as well as the origins, motivations, and justifications of bonfires, murals, commemorative displays, parades and other forms that symbolically articulate what he terms the "dual master narratives" that underlie and in many ways articulate the parameters of that conflict."--BOOK JACKET.
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History, Public opinion, Social conflict, Social conditions, Popular culture, Signs and symbols, Political science, Signs and signboards, Popular culture, ireland, Public opinion, ireland, Northern ireland, history, Northern ireland, social conditionsPlaces
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Signs of War and Peace: Social Conflict and the Uses of Symbols in Public in Northern Ireland
August 26, 2004, Palgrave Macmillan
Paperback
in English
1403967458 9781403967459
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Signs of War and Peace: Social Conflict and the Use of Public Symbols in Northern Ireland
January 12, 2002, Palgrave Macmillan
Hardcover
in English
- 1st ed edition
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Signs of war and peace: social conflict and the use of public symbols in Northern Ireland
2001, Palgrave
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"I first went to Northern Ireland to study Halloween, but I was struck (as I think most Americans are) by the preponderance of visual display."
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"I first went to Northern Ireland to study Halloween, but I was struck (as I think most Americans are) by the preponderance of visual display."
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