By Means of Performance: Intercultural Studies of Theatre and RitualRichard Schechner, Willa Appel 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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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Are there universals of performance in myth ritual and drama? | 8 |
Magnitudes of performance | 19 |
Liminality a synthesis of subjective and objective experience | 50 |
The Yaqui deer dance at Pascua Pueblo Arizona | 82 |
A Yaqui point of view on Yaqui ceremonies and anthropologists | 96 |
Performance of preceptsprecepts of performance Hasidic celebrations of Purim in Brooklyn | 109 |
The significance of performance for its audience an analysis of three Sri Lankan rituals | 118 |
The profanation of the sacred in circus clown performances | 194 |
Ethnographic notes on sacred and profane performance | 208 |
The spatial sense of the sacred in Spanish America and the American South and its tie with performance | 221 |
Space and context | 236 |
The transformation of consciousness in ritual performances some thoughts and questions | 245 |
Universals of performance or amortizing play | 250 |
Appendix | 273 |
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| Title | By Means of Performance: Intercultural Studies of Theatre and Ritual By Means of Performance: Intercultural Studies of Theatre and Ritual, Richard Schechner |
| Editors | Richard Schechner, Willa Appel |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1990 |
| ISBN | 0521339154, 9780521339155 |
| Length | 298 pages |
| Subjects | › › Performing Arts / Theater / General Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Social Science / Anthropology / General |
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