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Zusammenfassung This volume investigates a wide range of performance behaviour - dance! ritual! conflict situation! sports! storytelling and display behaviour - in a variety of circumstances and cultures in all contexts! from everyday life to high ceremony. It will be of value to scholars! teachers and students of anthropology! theatre! folklore! semiotics and performance studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; Notes of contributors; Introduction; 1. Are there universals of performance in myth, ritual, and drama?; 2. Magnitudes of performance; 3. Liminality: a synthesis of subjective and objective experience; 4. The Yaqui deer dance at Pascua Pueblo, Arizona; 5. The Yaqui point of view: on Yaqui ceremonies and anthropologies; 6. Performance of precepts/precepts of performance: Hasidic celebrations of Purim in Brooklyn; 7. The significance of performance for its audience: an analysis of three Sri Lankan rituals; 8. What does it mean to 'become the character': power, presence, and transcendence in Asian in-body disciplines of practice; 9. Korean shamans: role playing through trance possession; 10. The practice of noh theatre; 11. The profanation of the sacred in circus clown performances; 12. Ethnographic notes on sacred and profane performance; 13. The spatial sense of the sacred in Spanish America and the American South and its tie with performance; 14. Space and context; 15. The transformation of consciousness in ritual performances: some thoughts and questions; 16. Universals of performance; or amortising play; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
