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1 online resource (561 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Companions Series |
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Routledge Companions Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Performance as Anthropological Focus and Framework -- Histories, Theories, and Frameworks -- Performing as a Way of Knowing -- Performance and Identity -- Performance And/as Cultural Critique -- The Future of Performance Anthropology -- Additional Themes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part I Histories, Theories, and Frameworks -- 1 Body and Mind: The Making of the Anthropology of Performance -- Early Approaches |
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Embodiment, Sensory Experience, and Performer -- Performance and an Aesthetics of the Ordinary -- Identity, Mobility, the Body as a Site of Culture -- Enminded Embodiment: A Landscape of Being in the World -- Scholars and Institutions -- New Technologies and New Communities -- Choreographing Identities in Conversation: Embodiment as a Mode of Communication -- Katherine Dunham -- Alvin Ailey -- Carmen De Lavallade -- Thomas DeFrantz -- Bill T. Jones -- Julie Taylor and Marta Savigliano: Tango: Embodied Political Statement -- Yvonne Daniel -- Aimee Meredith Cox |
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Some Conclusions: Bringing Together Body, Corporeal Intelligence, and Performance -- References -- 2 In the Spirit of Experience, Reflexivity, and Growth: Exploring the Ancestral Roots of Performance Anthropology -- The Anthropology of Vic and Edie Turner -- Reflexive and Experiential Dimensions to Performance Anthropology -- The Next Generation: The Turners and Performance Anthropology in Hindsight -- Ethnographic Performance in the Classroom -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Performance and Aesthetics: Experiencing Expressive Events and Visual Arts -- The Emergence of Aesthetics |
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Aesthetics in Anthropology -- "Art By Destination" Versus "Art By Metamorphosis" -- Art, Objects, Images, Design -- Ethnography, Collaboration, Practice -- Alternative Aesthetics and Peak Experiences -- Taking Stock and Looking Ahead -- Acknowledgments -- Note -- References -- 4 Ritual as Performance -- What Is Ritual? -- Ritual and Theater -- Design Features of Ritual -- 1 Absence of Paraphrase -- 2 Sensory Intensification/Embodiment -- 3 Agency Reversal -- 4 Condensation -- 5 Interpretive Layering -- 6 Transformation/Reversal -- 7 Modularity -- 8 Pseudo-Instinct |
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Conclusion: The Playful Primate -- Notes -- References -- 5 Sport as Performance -- Opening With a Closing -- Moving Sport to Center Stage in Anthropology and Performance Studies -- Pedagogy and Performance -- Brittney Griner and Performance of Class, Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Politics -- Liveness, Affect, Mega-Events: Performance of Nation in the Olympic Games -- Brief Encore -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 6 Weaving, Cloth, and Costumes as Vital Contributors to Performance -- Making the Cloth and Costumes: Preparations and Making of Essential Components in Creation |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Structural Messages and Symbolic Designs Related to Meaning and Indigenous Knowledge |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Syring, David
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| ISBN |
9781000907919 |
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1000907910 |
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