Prominent anthropologists outline the scope of performance studies across anthropology, folklore, art and religious studies, providing an invaluable guide in this exciting and growing area. Roberts, University of California, Los Angeles This cutting-edge volume on the major advancements in performance studies presents the theories, methods, and practices of performance in cultures around the globe. Humanity bursts forth from these marvelous studies as far-flung souls sing, argue, and dance their truths.” Allen F. Korom has edited a landmark publication that will inspire experts and interested laypersons for years to come.” Andre Gingrich, Austrian Academy of Sciences “People perform who they are in the world, or who they would like to be. By approaching their topic through speech, disguise, body expression, or material articulation, contributors invite a wide readership across all kinds of fields to engage with a timely topic in new, refreshing and penetrating ways. Korom’s selection represents a broad scholarly range, demonstrating its value in the analysis of historical as well as modern, oral as well as literate cultures, making us realize, all of a sudden, that it is indispensable.” Dan Ben-Amos, University of Pennsylvania “The historical, regional, and ethnographic scope of this volume is breath-taking. Ever since, its meaning expanded, its implications deepened, and its presence in anthropology and folklore enabled insights in culture and creativity. “The concept of performance burst into the stage of anthropology through a door that the ethnography of speaking opened. Hip Hop Postmodernity: Dimensions of Late Capitalism and Cultural Studies Performing Race: Performativity as Complex Embodiment Myth in African and African Diasporic Festival/Carnival PerformanceĬonclusion: Carnival as an Encyclopedia of Other LiteraciesĢ0 Global Breakdancing and the Intercultural Body Semiological Similarities between African Festivals and Diasporic Carnivals Phenomenology and the Theory of Translocation Tourism, Ainu Cultural Expressions, and Ainu Ethnic Identitiesġ9 What They Came With: Carnival and the Persistence of African Performance Aesthetics in the Diaspora “The Spirit of Fes” and and the Reification of PlaceĬonclusion: Sacred Aesthetics and the Festive Sacredġ8 Ethnic Tourism in Hokkaidoˆ and the Shaping of Ainu IdentityĮthnic Tourism and the Commoditisation of Cultures The Festive Sacred and the Promise of Sonic Translation Part V: Tourist Performances and the Global Ecumeneġ7 The Promise of Sonic Translation: Performing the Festive Sacred in Morocco Part IV: Performance and Politics in the Making of Communitiesġ3 Poetry and Politics in a Transylvanian Villageġ4 The Matter of Talk: Political Performances in Bhatgaonġ5 Celebrating Cricket: The Symbolic Construction of Caribbean Politicsġ6 Performing the Nation: China’s Children as Little Red Pioneersįear of Water: Performance, Reiteration, and “Getting It Wrong” Implications for the notion of “belief system”ġ0 “He Should Have Worn a Sari”: A “Failed” Performance of a Central Indian Oral EpicĪudience Expectation and Performance Languageġ1 Representing History: Performing the Columbian Expositionġ2 The Palio of Siena: Performance and Process Seance Performance and the Construction of Cosmological Context Playing the Urgency of the Social Situationĭramaturgical means of constructing reality Limitations of the meaningcentered approach Introduction: Meaning-centered Analyses of Ritual Part III: Ritual, Drama, and Public SpectacleĨ Prayer as Person: The Performative Force in Navajo Prayer Actsĩ Performance and the Cultural Construction of Reality Part I: Performance in Prehistory and Antiquityġ Singing the Rug: Patterned Textiles and the Origins of Indo-European Metrical PoetryĢ Performance and Written Literature in Classical Greece: Envisaging Performance from Written Literature and Comparative ContextsĤ The La Have Island General Store: Sociability and Verbal Art in a Nova Scotia Communityĥ Proverbs and the Ethnography of Speaking Folkloreħ Shadows of Song: Exploring Research and Performance Strategies in Yolngu Women’s Crying-Songs The Anthropology of Performance: An Introduction
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