Screen LibraryThe anthropology of cultural performance
Contemporary life in most nation-states is not truly cultural, but rather "culture-like," especially in large-scale societies. Beginning with a distinction between special events and everyday life, Lewis examines fundamental events including play, ritual, work, and carnival and connects pe...
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| Language: | English |
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Contemporary life in most nation-states is not truly cultural, but rather "culture-like," especially in large-scale societies. Beginning with a distinction between special events and everyday life, Lewis examines fundamental events including play, ritual, work, and carnival and connects personal embodied habits and large-scale cultural practices. "A masterful and nuanced expansion of Victor Turner's pioneering work on the ritual process and on culture as a procession of quotidian events and critical performances. Drawing on Pierce's semiotics and on phenomenology, J. Lowell Lewis simultaneously provides an interdisciplinary perspective on performance studies and opens up new theoretical horizons on role-playing, ritual and dramaturgy in social life." - Michael D. Jackson, author of Lifeworlds: Essays in Existential Anthropology. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137343987. |
| Carrier Form: | 202 p. : 3 b&w, ill. |
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9781137343987 9781137342386 : 1137342382 : |
| CLC: | C912.4 |
| Contents: | 1. Special Events and Everyday Life 2. Play as Performance 3. Rituals and Ritual-like Genres 4. Performative Processes: Types of P/p relations 5. Embodiment, Emplacement, and Cultural Process 6. Problems in Performance and Cultural Theory. |