Huan Nuoyuan: Exorcism and Transformation in Miao Ritual Drama

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Riccio
Keyword(s):  
Ritual Drama

Deep in the Wuling Mountains of southwest Hunan, China, a 3,000-year-old ritual, the huan nuoyuan, is performed by the Miao people. The elaborate event is the conclusion of many years of preparation; it evokes and embodies the mythical forces that are central to the worldview of the politically and ethnically marginalized Miao.

Black Online Discourse, Part 1

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-170
Author(s):  
André Brock
Keyword(s):  
Technological Literacy ◽  
Racial Ideology ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Cultural Critique ◽  
Online Discourse ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Ritual Drama

Black digital practice reveals a complicated mix of technological literacy, discursive identity, and cultural critique. Taken together, it offers glimpses of the multivalent Black communities’ political, technocultural, and historical commonplaces to the outside world. These can be understood as three topoi shaping Black digital practice—ratchetry, respectability, and racism. This chapter examines ratchetry and racism as interlocking libidinal frames powering Black digital practice. Black digital practice, which the author once characterized as ritual drama and catharsis, can also be understood as digital orality—an online space encoded by folk culture and racial ideology, and undergirded by a libidinal discursive economy, producing pungent, plaintive commentary on matters political.

Ritual Symbolism in Folk and Ritual Drama: The Mayo Indian San Cayetano Velacion, Sonora, Mexico

1977 ◽  
Vol 90 (355) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Ross Crumrine ◽  
M. Louise Crumrine
Keyword(s):  
Ritual Drama
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