The Routledge companion to the anthropology of performance / edited by Lauren Miller and David Syring.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miller, Lauren (Lauren Elizabeth), editor.

Syring, David, 1967- editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rites and ceremonies.

Ritual.

Performing arts--Social aspects.

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 539 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Other Title:

Companion to the anthropology of performance

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Lauren Miller is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Texas Tech University. David Syring is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

Summary:

"The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance provides a cutting edge, comprehensive overview of the foundations, epistemologies, methodologies, key topics and current debates, and future directions in the field. It brings together work from the disciplines of anthropology and performance studies, as well as adjacent fields. Across 31 chapters, a diverse range of international scholars cover topics including: - Faith - Ritual - Theatre - Storytelling - Music - Dance -Textiles -Land Acknowledgements -Indigenous Identity - Visual Arts - Embodiment - Cognition - Healing - Festivals - Politics - Activism - The Law - Race & Ethnicity - Gender & Sexuality - Class - Religion & Spirituality - Disability - Leisure, Gaming, & Sport In addition, the included appendix offers Tools, Exercises, and Activities designed by contributors as useful suggestions to readers, both within and beyond academic contexts, to take the insights of performance anthropology into their work. This is a valuable reference for scholars and upper-level students in anthropology, performance studies, and related disciplines, including religious studies, art, philosophy, history, political science, gender studies, and education"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : performance as anthropological focus and framework / Lauren Miller Griffith and David Syring

Body and mind : the making of the anthropology of performance / Anya Royce

In the spirit of experience, reflexivity and growth : exploring the ancestral roots of performance anthropology / Pam Frese

Performance aesthetics : experiencing expressive events and visual arts / Helena Wulff

Ritual as performance / Bradd Shore

Sport as performance / Claire Conceison

Weaving, cloth, and costumes as vital contributors to performance / Andrea Heckman

Ethnographic comportment : a performance-based framework for research / Design, Kwame Harrison

Anthropology and laboratory theatre : opening anthropological orthopraxy to different ways of knowing/being / Caroline Gatt

Miraculous stories and the re-enchantment of the world : oral hagiographies of Guru Bawa / Frank Korom

Who's performing when the god dancer dances? : possession and ritual performance in South India / Sara Dickey

Two handed ethnography : a method for performance anthropology / Sara Delamont Neil Stephens

Traveling through space-time in the Manaus Boi-bumbá / Marnie K Watson

Construction with varied materials : adventures in global performativity and interconnection / Andrew Irving

Propia de Saraguro : performance in an indigenous Andean community creating 21st century vitality / David Syring

Music, identity, and performance in East Africa / Mwenda Ntarangi

Embodied cultural knowledge in practice : an ethio-modern dance case study YeBuna Alem/A coffee world / Ras Mikey Courtney

Performed identity : a case study in Irish dance / Breandán de Gallaí

Performing women in classic European circuses / Julia Offen

Performance in practice : "American" karate in the heartland / Noah Johnson

(Accidentally) doing whiteness : the meanings of performance in a rural U.S. music scene / David Flood

Performance and indigeneity : 'playing Indian' in the theater of darkness / Bernard C. Perley

On trial : law and the performativity of true stories / Laurie Frederik

Beyond the stage : anarcho-punks performing resistance in Bandung, Indonesia / Steve Moog

On carnivals and capitalism : performing neoliberal politics in Santiago, Dominican Republic / Sydney Hutchinson

Egyptian belly dance is feeling : intersubjectivity, Ṭarab, and cross-cultural prformance / Meg Morley

#Capoeiristas for Black lives : the complementarity of virtual and embodied performance communities / Lauren Griffith

Craftwork in ethnographic theater making / Debra Vidali

Performing the past and the present with an eye to the future : optimizing the potential of land acknowledgment rituals to help ensure they do no harm, EJ Sobo, Valerie Lambert, and Michael Lambert

Performance, play and resistance : teaching and learning at the happiest place on Earth / Stephanie Takaragawa

A sense-able partner / Andrea Conger

Beyond the aesthetically neutral body : performing disability futures / Cassandra Hartblay.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 10, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge companion to the anthropology of performance

ISBN:

9781003343875

1003343872

9781000907902

1000907902

9781000907919

1000907910

OCLC:

1376005192

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.