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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Rodeo: An Anthropologist Looks at the Wild and the Tame

Rodeo: An Anthropologist Looks at the Wild and the Tame

Lawrence, Elizabeth Atwood

Paperback

General ReferenceGeneral Drama

ISBN10: 0226469557
ISBN13: 9780226469553
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: May 15 1984
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.94 Depth: 9.01
Language: English
Rodeo people call their sport more a way of life than a way to make a living. Rodeo is, in fact, a rite that not only expresses a way of life but perpetuates it, reaffirming in a ritual contest between man and animal the values of American ranching society. Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence uses an interpretive approach to analyze rodeo as a symbolic pageant that reenacts the winning of the West and as a stylized expression of frontier attitudes toward man and nature. Rodeo constestants are the modern counterparts of the rugged and individualistic cowboys, and the ethos they inherited is marked by ambivalence: they admire the wild and the free yet desire to tame and conquer.

Based on extensive field work and drawing on comparative materials from other stock-tending societies, Rodeo is a major contribution to an understanding of the role of performance in society, the culturally constructed view of man's place in nature, and the structure and meaning of social relationships and their representations.

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