Michael Rudolph

List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael Rudolph is involved.

Articles

Rudolph, Michael 2016 The quest for ethnic reclassification in multiculturalist Taiwan: The case of the Sakizaya Archív Orientální 84:2, pp. 413–443 | Article

This paper argues that the large-scale ethnic resurgence, as observed in the quest for ethnic reclassification in Taiwan today, is not simply the result of deep-seated feelings of primordial attachment of people in a post-colonial society. As it has been described in the case of Brazil, the… read more

Rudolph, Michael 2015 Authenticating Performances: Rituals of Taiwan’s Aborigines Under the Impact of Nativism and Multiculturalism Archív Orientální 83:2, pp. 343–374 | Article

Adherents of performance theory emphasise the constitutive and transformative potentia of rituals with respect to patterns of social organization and authority. For them, rituals “not only mean something, but also do something, particularly the way they construct and inscribe power relationships”… read more