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Author Kilian, Cassis

Title Attention in Performance Acting Lessons in Sensory Anthropology
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (201 p.)
Series Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception Ser
Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception Ser
Contents Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Theory and theatre -- Re-enacting -- Memorising -- Observing -- Knowing -- Representing -- Listening -- Analysing -- Collaborating -- From acting to anthropology -- Note -- Chapter 1: Researching films we live by : Tribute to Dieudonné Niangouna -- Que sera, sera -- Research paradigms and perception -- Collaborative research -- Film scenes as metaphors -- Changes of research paradigms -- Notes
Chapter 2: Researching sensory memories : Tribute to Walter Lott -- Learning sense memory -- The chair relaxation exercise: a reduction of activities in the prefrontal cortex -- The coffee-cup exercise: a discovery of the implicit neural circuitry -- The bad news exercise: using the stimulus and response procedure -- Teaching sense memory -- Adapting sense memory exercises to academic contexts -- Multisensorial training -- A la recherche du temps perdu -- Feedback -- Sense memory in seminars -- Application areas: sense memory in anthropological research -- Introspection versus observation
Notes -- Chapter 3: Researching Being Present: Tribute to a Siberian tiger -- An education of attention guided by a Siberian tiger -- Abstaining from thinking ahead -- Altered states of consciousness -- What 'higher' cognitive functions hinder -- Beyond species boundaries -- Mimesis beyond culture -- Acting: neuroscience-anthropology -- Knowledge of the world: being-in-the-world -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Researching urban rhythms: Tribute to Emil Abossolo Mbo -- Methodological problems of rhythmanalysis -- Submission to rhythms imposed by others -- Cosmopolitan skills
North-South power relations and epistemological hierarchies -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Researching global entanglements: Tribute to Nkem Owoh -- Nollywood in the Global North -- Representing 'strange' films -- The Master -- The framing -- 'Strange' artistic skills and perception -- Perceiving global entanglements -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Researching human sounds and their resonance: Tribute to Christiane Zerda -- Translating speech -- Gaps in academic research -- Respiration -- Resonance -- The need to utter sounds -- Sounds, syllables, interjections -- Beyond Text -- Knowing a text from inside
Notes on reading in academia -- The sound of silence -- Learning to listen -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Researching discipline and despotism: Tribute to Peter G. Dirmeier -- Christiane Zerda -- Ariane Mnouchkine -- The gods of theatre -- Peter G. Dirmeier -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Researching collaborative approaches : Tribute to Caroline Gatt -- Dilemmas to deal with -- Lessons to be learned -- On advocates and scriveners -- Voices on collaborations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Epilogue -- The role and the real -- Ephemeral and material -- Analysis and attention
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Artistic research, anti-intellectualism and anthropology
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000353181
1000353184