Richard Schechner / Willa Appel (eds.)

By Means of Performance

Intercultural Studies of Theatre and Ritual
Herausgeber: Appel, Willa; Schechner, Richard

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The field of performance studies covers all kinds of performance behavior in all contexts. This volume investigates performance behavior in a variety of circumstances and cultures. The contributors consider such issues as the relationship between training and the finished performance; whether performance behavior is universal or culturally specific; and the relationships among ritual and aesthetics, popular entertainment and religion, and sports and theater and dance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780521339155
• ISBN-10: 0521339154
• Artikelnr.: 21039099

Inhaltsangabe

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.