ISBN:
1-84545-315-8
,
978-1-84545-315-2
,
1-57181-567-8
,
978-1-57181-567-5
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 239 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First paperback edition
Keywords:
Darstellende Kunst Tanz
;
Theater
;
Musik
;
Drama
;
Ästhetik
;
Symbolik
;
Ritual
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : the aesthetics of symbolic construction and experience / Bruce Kapferer and Angela Hobart -- Making grown men weep / William O. Beeman -- The buzz of God and the click of delight / David Shulman -- Songs of love, images of memory / Saskia Kersenboom -- The Hindu temple and the aesthetics of the imaginary / Rohan Bastin -- Where divine horsemen ride : trance dancing in West Africa / Steven M. Friedson -- Sorcery and the beautiful : a discourse on the aesthetics of ritual / Bruce Kapferer -- Transformation and aesthetics in Balinese masked performances -- Rangda and Barong / Angela Hobart -- A concise reflection on the Brazilian carnival / Roberto DaMatta -- Bureaucratic logic, bureaucratic aesthetics : the opening event of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day in Israel / Don Handelman -- Compassion for animals, indifference to humans : non- and misperceptions among circus audiences in 1970s Britain / Yoram S. Carmeli.
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