"Everything that makes the town happens during the festival": the construction of the meaning of place through festival practices

An interest in a sense of place, constructed through an active relationship with physical space, has directed scholars' attention to performance and the production of place meaning. The intention of this paper is to observe these processes in a particular cultural practice: a festival. On the e...

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Matična publikacija: People make places - ways of feeling the world ; SIEF 10th international congress
2011
Glavni autor: Kelemen, Petra (-)
Vrsta građe: Članak
Jezik: eng
Online pristup: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2011/panels.php5?PanelID=766
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