Places for Happiness: Community, Self, and Performance in by William Peterson
By William Peterson
Places for Happiness explores of crucial performance-based actions within the Philippines: the processions and keenness performs linked to Easter and the mass-dance phenomenon often called “street dancing.” the size of those hand made performances by way of period, time dedication, and effective exertions marks the Philippines as one of many world’s most important and undervalued performance-centered cultures. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, William Peterson examines how humans come jointly within the streets or on transitority levels, celebrating a shared experience of group and developing locations for happiness.
The first 1/2 the ebook specializes in localized and infrequently hugely idiosyncratic models of the fervour of Christ. Peterson considers not just what humans do in those occasions, yet what it seems like to take part. The book’s moment part presents a window into the numerous expressions of “street dancing.” highway dancing is inflected through localized indigenous and people dance traditions which are strengthened in school and practiced at the side of spiritual civic fairs. Peterson identifies key frames that form and comprise the person within the Philippines, whereas monitoring how the neighborhood expands its expressive domestic via carrying out a discussion with neighborhood, nationwide, and diasporic Filipino imaginaries.
Ultimately Places for Happiness explores how community-based functionality responds to and fulfills easy human wishes. Many Filipinos depend on kin and speedy acquaintances for aid and sustenance, and community-based functionality assumes a special and top function in defining, reinforcing, and celebrating shared trust structures. through bringing forth the inner, phenomenological, and embodied points of more than a few community-based practices contributing to human happiness, the ebook bargains a cultural framework that interweaves the person adventure with that of the collective, plotting out what is living contained in the physique throughout the coordinates of culture.
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