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Between Theater and Anthropology

By Richard Schechner

Book information

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Year
1985
ISBN
0812212258, 9780812212259
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
34 MB (35136498 bytes)
Pages
360\357
Time added
2016-04-01 20:43:47
Антропология

Description

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.

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