Between Theater and Anthropology / / Richard Schechner.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]
©1985
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 63 illus.
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Other title:Frontmatter --
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
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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780812200928
9783110413458
9783110413540
9783110442526
DOI:10.9783/9780812200928
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Richard Schechner.