Author: Guss, David M.
Title: The Festive State: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism as Cultural Performance
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (2000). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xiii,239 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Variations on a Venezuelan Quartet; The Selling of San Juan: The Performance of History in an Afro-Venezuelan Community; "Indianness" & the Construction of Ethnicity in the Day of the Monkey; "Full Speed Ahead with Venezuela": The Tobacco Industry, Nationalism, & the Business of Popular Culture; From Village Square to Opera House: Tamunangue & the Theater of Domination.

Keywords: Venezuela, Cultural, Anthropology, Social History, Sociology, Nationalism, Latin America, Festivals Ethnicity, Popular Culture