عنوان

Between theater & anthropology /

(Number (ISBN

0812212258

(Number (ISBN

0812279298

(Number (ISBN

9780812212259

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9780812279290

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Title Proper

Between theater & anthropology /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Richard Schechner ; foreword by Victor Turner.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Philadelphia :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c1985.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiv, 342 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

25 cm.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-332) and index.

Text of Note

Points of contact between anthropological and theatrical thought -- Restoration of behavior -- Performers and spectators transported and transformed -- Ramlila of Ramnagar -- Performer training interculturally -- Playing with Genet's Balcony: looking back on a 1979/1980 production -- News, sex, and performance theory.

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Text of Note

For over two decades Richard Schechner has written about the theater in a manner which ignores the dreary convention of drama as literature and which instead draws attention to the physical fact of live performance. In his recent book, Between Theater and Anthropology, Schechner considers live events or aspects of live events which fall outside common Euro-American definitions of dramatic performance and theater. He broadens the idea of 'performance' to include a wide range of social, ritual, and media activities: East Indian ritual dancing, trance-inducing spiritual song, stories on the Six O'clock News, S/M parlors and sideshows, and numerous other paratheatrical events - scripted and un-scripted, ritual and aesthetic, domestic and exotic. The seven essays included in Between Theater and Anthropology do not build upon each other in a progressive fashion: instead they individually explore unorthodox performance modes proposed in the introductory chapter. This first chapter illuminates 'Points of Contact' between the studies of theater and anthropology. Theater people can help anthropologists identify what to look for in a training or performance situation; and anthropologists can help theater people see performances within the context of specific social systems.

Title

Between theater & anthropology.

Parallel Title

Between theater and anthropology

Performing arts.

Rites and ceremonies.

Theater-- Anthropological aspects.

Class number

Book number

Schechner, Richard,1934-

Turner, Victor W., (Victor Witter),1920-1983.

Date of Transaction

20140203034238.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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