| Description |
xv, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Are there universals in performance in myth, ritual, and drama? / Victor Turner -- Magnitudes of performance / Richard Schechner -- Liminality : a synthesis of subjective and objective experience / Colin Turnbull -- Yaqui deer dance at Pascua Pueblo, Arizona / Edith Turner -- Yaqui point of view : on Yaqui ceremonies and anthropologist / Anselmo Valencia, Heather Valencia, Rosamond B. Spicer -- Performance of precepts/precepts of performance : Hasidic celebrations of Purim in Brooklyn / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Significance of performance for its audience : an analysis of three Sri Lankan rituals / Ranjini Obeyesekere -- What does it mean to "become the character" : power, presence, and transcendence in Asian in-body disciplines of practice / Phillip Zarrilli -- Korean shamans : role playing through trance possession / Du-Hyun Lee -- Practice of noh theatre / Monica Bethe, Karen Brazell -- Profanation of the sacred in circus clown performances / Paul Bouissac -- Ethnographic notes on sacred and profane performance / James L. Peacock |
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Spatial sense of the sacred in Spanish America and the American South and its tie with performance / Miles Richardson -- Space and context / Yi-fu Tuan -- Transformation of consciousness in ritual performances : some thouthts and questions / Barbara Myerhoff -- Universals of performance; or amortizing play |
| Summary |
"The field of performance studies embraces performance behaviour of all kinds and in all contexts, from everyday life to high ceremony. This volume investigates a wide range of performance behaviour -- dance, ritual, conflict solution, sports, storytelling and display behaviour -- in a variety of circumstances and cultures. It considers such issues as the relationship between training and the finished performance; whether performance behaviour is universal or culturally specific; and the relationships between ritual and aesthetics, popular entertainment and religion, and sports and theatre and dance." "The volume brings together essays from leading anthropologists, artists and performance theorists to provide a definitive introduction to the burgeoning field of performance studies. It will be of value to scholars, teachers and students of anthropology, theatre, folklore, semiotics and performance studies. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Man Social behaviour |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-283) and index |
| Subject |
Turner, Victor W. (Victor Witter), 1920-1983.
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Performing arts -- Philosophy.
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Rites and ceremonies.
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Performing arts.
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Theater and society.
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften.
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| Author |
Appel, Willa.
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Schechner, Richard, 1934-
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| LC no. |
88037458 |
| ISBN |
0521326087 |
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0521339154 (paperback) |
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