celebrating cricket: the symbolic construction of Caribbean politics
1981; Wiley; Volume: 8; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1525/ae.1981.8.3.02a00120
ISSN1548-1425
Autores Tópico(s)Sports, Gender, and Society
ResumoCricket festivals are Bermuda's major public celebrations, aside from Christmas. This paper examines their social history, their carnivalesque character, and a prominent ancillary activity, gambling. It is proposed that these festivals symbolically depict both a reflexive, assertive sense of black culture and a stark awareness of black economic dependency on whites—a dramatic tension that is also the semantic context of Bermudian politics. Festival is thus a metaphorical map of the political system, a contention that appears generalizable to the Caribbean. [festival, politics, cricket, Caribbean, symbolic/cognitive analysis]
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