Future of Ritual - Writings on Culture and Performance

Informationen zum Autor Richard Schechner Klappentext In The Future of Ritual, Richard Schechner explores the nature of ritualised behaviour and its relationship to performance and politics. A brilliant and uncontainable examination of cultural expression and communal action, The Future of Ritual asks pertinent questions about art, theatre and the changing meaning of 'culture' in today's intercultural world. An exciting new work by the author of Performance Theory. Zusammenfassung A brilliant examination of cultural expression and communal action, The Future of Ritual asks pertinent questions about art, theatre and the changing meaning of 'culture' in today's intercultural world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments, A prefatory note, 1. Introduction: Jayaganesh and the avant-garde, 2. Playing, 3. The street is the stage, 4. Waehma: space, time, identity, and theatre at New Pascua, Arizona, 5. Striding through the cosmos: movement, belief, politics, and place in the Ramlila of Ramnagar, 6. Wayang kulit in the colonial margin, 7. The future of ritual, References, Index

Product details

• Authors: RICHARD SCHECHNER, Schechner Richard
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.1995
• EAN: 9780415046909
• ISBN: 978-0-415-04690-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PERFORMING ARTS / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Performance Art, Sociology and anthropology