Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 298 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
Edition:
1990
ISBN:
9780511607806
Content:
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
Content:
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
Content:
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
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521326087
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521339155
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe By means of performance Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1990 ISBN 0521326087
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521339154
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
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General works
Keywords:
Darstellende Kunst
;
Ritual
;
Ritus
;
Soziales Drama
;
Tradition
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511607806
URL:
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Author information:
Schechner, Richard 1934-
