By means of performance : intercultural studies of theatre and ritual /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990. |
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| Description: | xv, 298 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/958345 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Concerning Victor Turner
- 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. A Yaqui point of view: on Yaqui ceremonies and anthropologists
- 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 American 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 amortizing play
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index