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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454921103321

Autore

Schechner Richard <1934->

Titolo

Between theater & anthropology [[electronic resource] /] / Richard Schechner ; foreword by Victor Turner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1985

ISBN

1-283-21135-1

9786613211354

0-8122-0092-6

0-585-22479-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TurnerVictor W <1920-1983.> (Victor Witter)

Disciplina

792/.01

Soggetti

Theater - Anthropological aspects

Rites and ceremonies

Performing arts

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.