The performance studies reader /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2004. |
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| Description: | xix, 329 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8352953 |
Table of Contents:
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I. What is performance studies?
- 1. Performance studies: the broad spectrum approach
- 2. Disciplines of the text: sites of performance
- 3. The liminal-norm
- 4. Professing performances: disciplinary genealogies
- 5. Performance studies
- Part II. What is performance?
- 6. Performances: belief in the part one is playing
- 7. Blurred genres: the refiguration of social thought
- 8. What is performance?
- 9. Life the movie
- Part III. Ritual
- 10. Liminality and communitas
- 11. "Performance" and other analogies
- 12. "The blood that runs through the veins": the creation of identity and a client's experience of Cuban-American santeria dilogun divination
- 13. Saint Orlan: ritual as violent spectacle and cultural criticism
- Part IV. Play
- 14. The nature and significance of play as a cultural phenomenon
- 15. A theory of play and fantasy
- 16. The ambiguity of play: rhetorics of fate
- 17. Just doing
- Part V. Performativity
- 18. How to do things with words: lecture II
- 19. Performative acts and gender constitution: an essay in phenomenology and feminist theory
- 20. Introduction to Performativity and Performance
- 21. Theater and anthropology, theatricality and culture
- Part VI. Performing
- 22. A dialogue about acting
- 23. The actor's technique
- 24. A dream of passion
- 25. Presenting and re-presenting the self: from not-acting to acting in African performance
- Part VII. Performance processes
- 26. First attempts at a stylized theatre
- 27. The oral artist: training and preparation
- 28. The performance text
- 29. The deep order called turbulence: the three faces of dramaturgy
- Part VIII. Global and intercultural performance
- 30. Performing ethnography
- 31. Of mimicry and man
- 32. Culturas-in-extremis: performing against the cultural backdrop of the mainstream bizarre
- 33. Reverend Billy: preaching, protest and post-industrial flanerie
- 34. Performance studies: interventions and radical research
- Index