Since the 1980s, the anthropology of pilgrimage has moved away from its traditional focus on the exoticisms of non-Christian pilgrimage (e.g. Karve 1962; Rabinow 1975; Gold 1988) towards an analysis of pilgrimage in more familiar settings (e.g. Coleman and Elsner 1998). Partly as a result of this shift of ethnographic focus, recent anthropology of pilgrimage has also been marked by a shift of emphasis from a broadly structuralist approach informed by the influential work of Victor Turner (e.g. Turner and Turner 1978) towards a concern with the heterogeneity of the pilgrimage experience.
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Postcards from the Edge of History
Narrative and the Sacralisation of Mormon Historical Sites
Hildi J. Mitchell
Biography and Shakespeare’s Money
Portraits of an Economic Persona
Paola Pugliatti
corpus of texts that constitutes Shakespearean biography is simply ignored by the theoretical debate that has flourished since the 1980s. 12 Is this because writing a biography of Shakespeare is a self-justifying gesture? Or is it because the variety of
The True Story of Gundagai’s Dog on the Tuckerbox
Tourists, Truth, and the Insouciance of Souvenirs
Richard White
-distance family driving holiday ( White 2005 ), from the 1950s to the 1980s, when the Hume Highway offered the cheapest and most convenient means of traveling between Sydney and Melbourne. As the long family car trip lost much of its appeal and as domestic
Mohamed Enani
readers and translators paid relatively little attention to the sonnets, the past generation has brought a flurry of efforts. About six translations of the sonnets, each nearly complete, have appeared since the 1980s. 1 Each one tries to reproduce the
Donald H. Holly Jr.
share a common ancestor—the inquisitive tourist ( see Crick 1995 ; Frankland 1999: 71 ). Ethnographic writing has been subject to close reading since at least the postmodern turn in the field in the 1980s ( see Bruner 1986 ; Clifford 1988 ; Clifford
Beyond Colonial Tropes
Two Productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Palestine
Samer Al-Saber
rehearsal, and in performance brought the audience closer to the story and its characters. 23 Hijazi said his intercultural approach to the text was inspired by a Midsummer production he saw at the Mülheim festival in Germany in the late 1980s, during his
The Corpus of London
(Dis)covering the Victorian City
David W. Chapman
may continue to exist in memory—we instruct our friends to “turn left where the old Holiday Inn used to be.” We recognize the effect of time on the city—the urban sprawl of the 1960s and 1970s, the revitalization of the city center in the 1980s and
Offshore Desires
Mobility, Liquidity and History in Shakespeare’s Mediterranean
Rui Carvalho Homem
since the 1980s, sometimes under the name of ‘spatiality studies’ – drawing on prior contributions ranging from phenomenology and existentialism through structuralism to theories of post- or late modernity. Despite the variousness of their intellectual
The Quest for the Sonnet
The Origins of the Sonnet in Arabic Poetry
Kamal Abu-Deeb
Epilogue (For the English Version of the Study) Sometime in the mid-1980s, I was working on a paper to be delivered at an international conference on the impact of Arabic literature on Western literatures. As I explored various possibilities
Touring the Regions
(Dis) Uniting the Kingdom on Holiday
Hazel Andrews
on the outskirts of London, within the ring of the M25 motorway. Therefore, to refer to the imagined division as north of Watford is misleading, as this misses areas of the southeast of England. As Shields goes on to note, citing a 1980s article in