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By Means of Performance

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By Means of Performance

By Means of Performance

Intercultural Studies of Theatre and Ritual
Richard Schechner
Willa Appel
May 1990
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    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 situation, 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 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.

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    May 1990
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    9780521339155
    320 pages
    229 × 152 × 18 mm
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    Contents

    Table of Contents

    • List of figures
    • Notes of contributors
    • Introduction
    • 1. Are there universals of performance in myth, ritual, and drama?
    • 2. Magnitudes of performance
    • 3. Liminality: a synthesis of subjective and objective experience
    • 4. The Yaqui deer dance at Pascua Pueblo, Arizona
    • 5. The Yaqui point of view: on Yaqui ceremonies and anthropologies
    • 6. Performance of precepts/precepts of performance: Hasidic celebrations of Purim in Brooklyn
    • 7. The significance of performance for its audience: an analysis of three Sri Lankan rituals
    • 8. What does it mean to 'become the character': power, presence, and transcendence in Asian in-body disciplines of practice
    • 9. Korean shamans: role playing through trance possession
    • 10. The practice of noh theatre
    • 11. The profanation of the sacred in circus clown performances
    • 12. Ethnographic notes on sacred and profane performance
    • 13. The spatial sense of the sacred in Spanish America and the American South and its tie with performance
    • 14. Space and context
    • 15. The transformation of consciousness in ritual performances: some thoughts and questions
    • 16. Universals of performance
    • or amortising play
    • Appendix
    • Bibliography
    • Index.
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