Il Ramadan in tv. Analisi di un rito televisivo in un contesto d'emigrazione

Ramadan in TV: analysis of a television ritual in an emigration context
This article analyses the ritual of Ramadan using the methods of media ethnography. Central themes are the performance of Ramadan in contemporary TV and its fruition in an emigration context. The author’s intent is to show the central role that the Arab national televisions, especially the Tunisian national TV Tunis7, play during Ramadan. In fact national televisions render the celebration of the ritual an easier task in both national and transnational contexts, by supporting its practice. Referring to some classical studies concerning the anthropology of ritual, the article highlights the modalities of construction of the ritual’s ‘sacred’ times and spaces, through precise strategies enacted by televisions and viewers. The notion of space, in particular, reinterpreted through Meyerowitz’s notion of ‘place’ and applied to Ramadan, inscribes the television ritual within the complex category of rites et rituels contemporains.