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Informationen zum Autor Frank J. Korom is Professor of Religion and Anthropology at Boston University, where he teaches courses on verbal art, anthropology of religion, and cultures of South Asia. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in India, Sri Lanka, Trinidad, amongst other places. His interests range from ritual and performance studies to visual and material culture. His extensive publications include Hosay Trinidad: Muharram Performances in an Indo-Caribbean Diaspora (2003) and Village of Painters: Narrative Scrolls from West Bengal (2006). Klappentext This cutting-edge volume on the major advancements in performance studies presents the theories, methods, and practices of performance in cultures around the globe. Prominent anthropologists outline the scope of performance studies across anthropology, folklore, art and religious studies, providing an invaluable guide in this exciting and growing area.The anthology focuses on the way in which performances, broadly construed as acting aesthetically on or off stage, figure in the anthropological study of culture. Drawing on a wide range of phenomena, and employing fascinating case studies, the volume successfully demonstrates how human beings communicate with one another - both verbally and non-verbally - through the use of stylized or expressive behavior.The Anthropology of Performance has been accessibly arranged into a number of thematic sets, and structured in a way that introduces new and advanced students to the task of studying and interpreting complex social, cultural, and political events from a performance perspective. It begins with a valuable theoretical introduction by the editor which contextualizes and frames the subsequent chapters. It is an indispensable volume in this interdisciplinary field for anthropologists, folklorists, sociologists, theatre studies specialists, and the interested general reader. Zusammenfassung The Anthropology of Performance is an invaluable guide to this exciting and growing area. This cutting-edge volume on the major advancements in performance studies presents the theories, methods, and practices of performance in cultures around the globe. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionToward an Anthropology of PerformanceFrank J. KoromI. Performance in Prehistory and Antiquity1. "Singing the Rug: Patterned Textiles and the Origins of Indo-European Metrical PoetryAnthony Tuck2. Performance and Written Literature in Classical GreeceRosalind ThomasII. Verbal Genres of Performance3. Playing the DozensRoger A. Abrahams4. The La Have Island General Store: Sociability and Verbal Art in a Nova Scotia CommunityR. Bauman5. Proverbs and the Ethnography of SpeakingE. O. Arewa and A. Dundes6. Gbaya Riddles in Changing TimesP. A. Noss7. Shadows of Song: Exploring Research and Performance Strategies in Yolngu Women's Crying SongsFiona MagowanIII. Ritual, Drama, and Public Spectacle8. Prayer as Person: The Performative Force in Navajo Prayer ActsSam D. Gill9. Performance and the Cultural Construction of RealityE. L. Schieffelin10. He Should Have Worn a SariJoyce Flueckiger11. Representing History: Performing the Columbian ExpositionR. K. Bank12. The Palio of Siena: Performance and ProcessA. P. LoganIV. Performance and Politics in the Making of Communities13. Poetry and Politics in a Transylvanian VillageG. Kligman14. The Matter of Talk: Political Performance in BhatgaonD. Brenneis15. Celebrating Cricket: The Symbolic Construction of Caribbean PoliticsF. E. Manning16. Performing the Nation: China's Children as Little Red PioneersT. W. WoronovV. Tourist Performances and the Global Ecumene17. The Promise of Sonic Translation: Performing the Festive Sacred in MoroccoDeborah Kapchan18. Ethnic Tourism in Hokkaido and the Shaping of Ainu IdentityLisa Hiwasaki19. What They Came With: Carnival and the Persistence of African Performance Aesthetics in the Di...
