Anthropology of the Performing Arts Artistry,

Anya Peterson Royce turns the anthropological gaze on the performing arts, attempting to find broad commonalities in performance, art, and artists across space, time, and culture. She asks general questions as to the nature of artistic interpretation, the

Anya Peterson Royce is Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Acknowledgments	vii
CHAPTER ONE Toward an Anthropology of Performing Arts	1	(18)
CHAPTER TWO Virtuosity: The Masque of Nonchalance	19	(18)
CHAPTER THREE Technique and Style, Conservatism and Change: Michel Fokine and the Ballets Russes	37	(26)
CHAPTER FOUR Artistry: The Embodiment of Transparency	63	(22)
CHAPTER FIVE Codified and Metaphorical Vocabularies: The Creative Artistry of Vaslav Nijinsky and of Marcel Marceau	85	(20)
CHAPTER SIX Tewa Indian Ritual: Native Aesthetics	105	(18)
CHAPTER SEVEN Artistic Performances: Janos Starker Crafts the Inevitable	123	(18)
CHAPTER EIGHT Silence and Stillness in Music and Dance	141	(12)
CHAPTER NINE The Audience as Creator and Interpreter	153	(28)
CHAPTER TEN Performers and Genres: The Form and Meaning of Innovation	181	(26)
CHAPTER ELEVEN Artistry and Altered States	207	(20)
CHAPTER TWELVE Afterthoughts	227	(14)
References	241	(8)
Index	249	(10)
About the Author	259

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Anthropology of the Performing Arts Artistry, Virtuosity, and Interpretation in Cross-Cultural Perspective

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