These essays by leading anthropologists, artists and performance theorists, explore performance behaviour in different social contexts.
List of figures
ix
Notes on contributors
xi
Concerning Victor Turner
xv
Introduction
1
(7)
Richard Schechner
Willa Appel
Are there universals of performance in myth, ritual, and drama?
8
(11)
Victor Turner
Magnitudes of performance
19
(31)
Richard Schechner
Liminality: a synthesis of subjective and objective experience
50
(32)
Colin Turnbull
The Yaqui deer dance at Pascua Pueblo, Arizona
82
(14)
Edith Turner
A Yaqui point of view: on Yaqui ceremonies and anthropologists
96
(13)
Anselmo Valencia
Heather Valencia
Rosamond B. Spicer
Performance of precepts/precepts of performance: Hasidic celebrations of Purim in Brooklyn
109
(9)
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
The significance of performance for its audience: an analysis of three Sri Lankan rituals
118
(13)
Ranjini Obeyesekere
What does it mean to ``become the character'': power, presence, and transcendence in Asian in-body disciplines of practice
131
(18)
Phillip Zarrilli
Korean shamans: role playing through trance possession
149
(18)
Du-Hyun Lee
The practice of noh theatre
167
(27)
Monica Bethe
Karen Brazell
The profanation of the sacred in circus clown performances
194
(14)
Paul Bouissac
Ethnographic notes on sacred and profane performance
208
(13)
James L. Peacock
The spatial sense of the sacred in Spanish America and the American South and its the with performance
221
(15)
Miles Richardson
Space and context
236
(9)
Yi-Fu Tuan
The transformation of consciousness in ritual performances: some thoughts and questions
245
(5)
Barbara Myerhoff
Universals of performance; or amortizing play
250
(23)
Herbert Blau
Appendix
273
(2)
Bibliography
275
(9)
Index
284
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