Kings for Three Days
The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11793203 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean Muteba Rahier, Jean Muteba |
| Year | 2013 |
| Pages | 197 |
| Publication date | 2013-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Kings for Three Days Interp Culture New Millennium (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5406/illinois/9780252037511.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2250179126 |
| ISBN | 9780252037511 |
| Open Library | OL26178170M |
| Google Books | c2tTzxl86usC |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
With its rich mix of cultures, European influences, colonial tensions, and migration from bordering nations, Ecuador has long drawn the interest of ethnographers, historians, and political scientists. This book delivers a highly detailed, thought-provoking examination of the racial, sexual, and social complexities of Afro-Ecuadorian culture, as revealed through the annual Festival of the Kings. During the Festival, the people of various villages and towns of Esmeraldas—Ecuador's province most associated with blackness—engage in celebratory and parodic portrayals, often donning masks, cross-dressing, and disguising themselves as blacks, indigenous people, and whites, in an obvious critique of local, provincial, and national white, white-mestizo, and light-mulatto elites. The book shows that this festival, as performed in different locations, reveals each time a specific location's perspective on the larger struggles over identity, class, and gender relations in the racial-spatial order of Esmeraldas, and of the Ecuadorian nation in general
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Ethnography · Ethnology · Geography · Identity (music · Indigenous · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Sociology · Visual arts · White (mutation · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gender Studies · History · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Africa · Black People · Blacks · Blacks, race identity · Ecuador · Epiphany · Race identity · race relations · rites and ceremonies · Sex role · Social life and customs
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| Citations per year | 0.58 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |