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The future of ritual : writings on culture and performance / Richard Schechner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schechner, Richard, 1934-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theater and society.
- Performing arts--Philosophy.
- Performing arts.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Play.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In The Future of Ritual, Richard Schechner explores the nature of ritualised behaviour and its relationship to performance and politics. A brilliant and uncontainable examination of cultural expression and communal action, The Future of Ritual asks pertinent questions about art, theatre and the changing meaning of 'culture' in today's intercultural world. An exciting new work by the author of Performance Theory.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; A prefatory note; Introduction: Jayaganesh and the avant-garde; Playing; The street is the stage; Waehma: space, time, identity, and theatre at New Pascua, Arizona; Striding through the cosmos: movement, belief, politics, and place in the Ramlila of Ramnagar; Wayang kulit in the colonial margin; The future of ritual; References; Index
- Notes:
- Paperback edition first published by Routledge 1995.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-94692-9
- 1-134-94693-7
- 0-415-04689-0
- 9786610323401
- 1-280-32340-X
- 0-203-35915-1
- 9780203359150
- OCLC:
- 646718412
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