Travelling circus
An Interpretation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4903701 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yoram S Carmeli (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 258-282 |
| Publication date | 1988-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-9756 • E-ISSN: 1474-0583 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003975600005695 |
| OpenAlex | W1975249682 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 19 |
Of the variety of travellers in Britain, circus people belong in a special category. Unlike travelling businessmen, visitors or most tourists, they travel permanently, but in contrast to homeless vagrants, they have a home in their caravans. Together with fairground travellers and various categories of Gypsies, circus people comprise the 'nomads' of modern Britain (for classification of travellers see Cohen 1974: 534
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Cirko artisto kūnas cirko istorijoje
Symbolic types, the body, and circus
Alien invaders
Nordic Modernists in the Circus. On the Aesthetic Reflection of a Transcultural Institution
Surveilling Cirque Archaos
From Curiosity to Prop—A Note on the Changing Cultural Significances of Dwarves' Presentations in Britain
Rituals/spectacles
Outsiders in urban society
Gypsy Politics and Social Change
Nomads and the outside world
The Traveller-Gypsies
Leisure in the Industrial Revolution
Administrative Succession in Formal Organizations
Circus Rings around Russia
Big Circus, Little Circus
Simmel at a Distance
Simmel's 'Stranger
Why Does the "Jimmy Brown's Circus" Travel
Played by Their Own Play
Social Control in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Who is a Tourist
Symbolic types, mediation and the transformation of ritual context
The Culture of Postmodernism
Economic Adaptability
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1991 - 2020 (30) |
| Highly cited | No |