Ritual and Event

Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Herausgeber: Franko, Mark

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ritual today can be encountered in the midst of catastrophic and transforming events. The essays collected here reassess and revise traditionally understood relationships between ritual and politics, ritual and everyday life, ritual and art making as well as ritual and disaster. The methodologies as well as subject matter are interdisciplinary: they range from the anthropological to the art and dance historical, from the theatrical and literary to the linguistic, philosophical, and psychoanalytic. Although the book is interdisciplinary, the material could be used on graduate courses in a range of areas such as Anthropology, Art, History, Theater, or Performance Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 311g
• ISBN-13: 9780415544115
• ISBN-10: 0415544114
• Artikelnr.: 27388712

Autorenporträt

Mark Franko is a choreographer and performance scholar who teaches in the Theater Arts Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among his publications are Dance as Text: Ideologies of the Baroque Body, Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics, and The Work of Dance: Labor, Movement, and Identity.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Eventful Knowledge and the Post-Ritual Turn Mark Franko Part
I. Critical Historiographies/New Formations 1. Going Back to Bateson:
Towards a Semiotics of (Post-) Ritual Performance Sally A. Ness 2.
Performative Interventions: African Community Theatre in the age of AIDS
Ola Johansson 3. Ritually Failing: Turner's Theatrical Communitas Andrew
Wegley 4. Situation and Event: The Destinations of Sense Tyrus Miller Part
II. Case Studies from the Performative and Visual Archive 5. The Terrorist
Event Bill Nichols 6. Gojira vs Godzilla: Catastrophic Allegories Aaron
Kerner 7. Given Movement: dance and the Event Mark Franko 8. Illness as
Danced Urban Ritual Janice Ross 9. Post-colonial Torture: Rituals of
Viewing at Abu Ghraib Catherine Soussloff