Between theater & anthropology / Richard Schechner ; foreword by Victor Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schechner, Richard, 1934-

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Anthropological aspects.

Theater.

Rites and ceremonies.

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Between theater and anthropology

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1985.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In performances by Euro-Americans, Afro-Americans, Native Americans, and Asians, Richard Schechner has examined carefully the details of performative behavior and has developed models of the performance process useful not only to persons in the arts but to anthropologists, play theorists, and others fascinated (but perhaps terrified) by the multichannel realities of the postmodern world. Schechner argues that in failing to see the structure of the whole theatrical process, anthropologists in particular have neglected close analogies between performance behavior and ritual. The way performances are created-in training, workshops, and rehearsals-is the key paradigm for social process.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Acknowledgments

1. Points of Contact Between Anthropological and Theatrical Thought

2. Restoration of Behavior

3. Performers and Spectators Transported and Transformed

4. Ramlila of Ramnagar

5. Performer Training Interculturally

6. Playing with Genet's Balcony: Looking Back on a 1979/1980 Production

7. News, Sex, and Performance Theory

References

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613211354

9781283211352

1283211351

9780812200928

0812200926

9780585224794

058522479X

OCLC:

44955612