David M Gu
Biographic Data
| ID | 107085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David M Gu |
| GIVEN NAMES | David M |
| FAMILY NAME | Gu |
| SIGNATURE | GU D M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Festive State
David M. Guss, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000, 239 pages (paper).Reviewer: Anastasia N. PanagakosUniversity of CaliforniaIn The Festive State: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism as Cultural Performance, author David M. Guss explores how festivals, rituals, andcultural performances exemplify ways in which culture and identity become sites of contestation in Venezuela. This point is well illustrated in opening vignette of book in whic…
Full Speed Ahead with Venezuela
Research Article| January 01 1996 “Full Speed Ahead with Venezuela”: The Tobacco Industry, Nationalism, and the Business of Popular Culture David M. Guss David M. Guss Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1996) 9 (1): 33–54. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9-1-33 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David M. Guss; “Full Speed Ahead with Venezuela”:…
The selling of San Juan
By viewing the Afro-Venezuelan Festival of San Juan in the historical context of a 45-year period, we can see the manner in which this celebration has articulated the changing social and political realities of those who have performed it. From the growth of nationalism and the consolidation of the Venezuelan state during the first years of democracy in the late 1940s, to the developmental fever generated by the oil boom of the 1970s, to the emerg…
To Weave and Sing
To Weave and Sing
This article examines the art, symbolism, and narrative traditions of the Tukanoan-speaking peoples of the northwest Amazon, focusing on how their expressive culture reflects and shapes their social and ecological environment. O'Hanlon and Guss analyze the intricate connections between basketry designs, masked dances, and myths, demonstrating how these forms interweave to create a complex system of meaning. They argue that Tukanoan art is not sim…
To Square with Genesis
Keeping It Oral
Following a brief survey of early ethnographic contact, this paper focuses on the dynamics of what Roy Wagner has termed "reverse anthropology," the "metaphorization" of the foreign into one's own ideology. Through an analysis of various myths, the manner in which new historical realities have been incorporated into the existing symbolic structures of the Yekuana Indians of Venezuela is discussed. While attention is devoted to the transformation …
The Enculturation of Makiritare Women
Of the many Cariban-speaking tribes who once dominated Venezuela, there probably is none that has survived into the present as successfully as the Makiritare (also known as Yekuana), a small tribe of approximately 1,500 Indians, inhabiting 30 independent villages along the Caura, Paragua, Erevato, Ventuari, and Cunucunuma Rivers, which are tributaries of the Orinoco. The name Makiritare, an Arawak word meaning Water People, and the term, Yekuana …
Keeping It Oral
Following a brief survey of early ethnographic contact, this paper focuses on the dynamics of what Roy Wagner has termed "reverse anthropology," the "metaphorization" of the foreign into one's own ideology. Through an analysis of various myths, the manner in which new historical realities have been incorporated into the existing symbolic structures of the Yekuana Indians of Venezuela is discussed. While attention is devoted to the transformation …
The selling of San Juan
By viewing the Afro-Venezuelan Festival of San Juan in the historical context of a 45-year period, we can see the manner in which this celebration has articulated the changing social and political realities of those who have performed it. From the growth of nationalism and the consolidation of the Venezuelan state during the first years of democracy in the late 1940s, to the developmental fever generated by the oil boom of the 1970s, to the emerg…
To Weave and Sing
This article examines the art, symbolism, and narrative traditions of the Tukanoan-speaking peoples of the northwest Amazon, focusing on how their expressive culture reflects and shapes their social and ecological environment. O'Hanlon and Guss analyze the intricate connections between basketry designs, masked dances, and myths, demonstrating how these forms interweave to create a complex system of meaning. They argue that Tukanoan art is not sim…
Full Speed Ahead with Venezuela
Research Article| January 01 1996 “Full Speed Ahead with Venezuela”: The Tobacco Industry, Nationalism, and the Business of Popular Culture David M. Guss David M. Guss Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1996) 9 (1): 33–54. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9-1-33 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David M. Guss; “Full Speed Ahead with Venezuela”:…
The Enculturation of Makiritare Women
Of the many Cariban-speaking tribes who once dominated Venezuela, there probably is none that has survived into the present as successfully as the Makiritare (also known as Yekuana), a small tribe of approximately 1,500 Indians, inhabiting 30 independent villages along the Caura, Paragua, Erevato, Ventuari, and Cunucunuma Rivers, which are tributaries of the Orinoco. The name Makiritare, an Arawak word meaning Water People, and the term, Yekuana …
The Enculturation of Makiritare Women
Of the many Cariban-speaking tribes who once dominated Venezuela, there probably is none that has survived into the present as successfully as the Makiritare (also known as Yekuana), a small tribe of approximately 1,500 Indians, inhabiting 30 independent villages along the Caura, Paragua, Erevato, Ventuari, and Cunucunuma Rivers, which are tributaries of the Orinoco. The name Makiritare, an Arawak word meaning Water People, and the term, Yekuana …
Keeping It Oral
Following a brief survey of early ethnographic contact, this paper focuses on the dynamics of what Roy Wagner has termed "reverse anthropology," the "metaphorization" of the foreign into one's own ideology. Through an analysis of various myths, the manner in which new historical realities have been incorporated into the existing symbolic structures of the Yekuana Indians of Venezuela is discussed. While attention is devoted to the transformation …
To Weave and Sing
This article examines the art, symbolism, and narrative traditions of the Tukanoan-speaking peoples of the northwest Amazon, focusing on how their expressive culture reflects and shapes their social and ecological environment. O'Hanlon and Guss analyze the intricate connections between basketry designs, masked dances, and myths, demonstrating how these forms interweave to create a complex system of meaning. They argue that Tukanoan art is not sim…
To Square with Genesis
To Weave and Sing
The selling of San Juan
By viewing the Afro-Venezuelan Festival of San Juan in the historical context of a 45-year period, we can see the manner in which this celebration has articulated the changing social and political realities of those who have performed it. From the growth of nationalism and the consolidation of the Venezuelan state during the first years of democracy in the late 1940s, to the developmental fever generated by the oil boom of the 1970s, to the emerg…
Full Speed Ahead with Venezuela
Research Article| January 01 1996 “Full Speed Ahead with Venezuela”: The Tobacco Industry, Nationalism, and the Business of Popular Culture David M. Guss David M. Guss Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1996) 9 (1): 33–54. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-9-1-33 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation David M. Guss; “Full Speed Ahead with Venezuela”:…
The Festive State
David M. Guss, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000, 239 pages (paper).Reviewer: Anastasia N. PanagakosUniversity of CaliforniaIn The Festive State: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism as Cultural Performance, author David M. Guss explores how festivals, rituals, andcultural performances exemplify ways in which culture and identity become sites of contestation in Venezuela. This point is well illustrated in opening vignette of book in whic…
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