Anthropology Of The Performing Arts

Author : Anya Peterson Royce
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0759102244

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Anthropology of the Performing Arts by Anya Peterson Royce Pdf

Anya Peterson Royce turns the anthropological gaze on the performing arts, attempting to find broad commonalities in performance, art, and artists across space, time, and culture. She asks general questions as to the nature of artistic interpretation, the differences between virtuosity and artistry, and how artists interplay with audience, aesthetics, and style. To support her case, she examines artists as diverse as Fokine and the Ballets Russes, Tewa Indian dancers, 17th century commedia dell'arte, Japanese kabuki and butoh, Zapotec shamans, and the mime of Marcel Marceau, adding her own observations as a professional dancer in the classical ballet tradition. Royce also points to the recent move toward collaboration across artistic genres as evidence of the universality of aesthetics. Her analysis leads to a better understanding of artistic interpretation, artist-audience relationships, and the artistic imagination as cross-cultural phenomena. Over 29 black and white photographs and drawings illustrate the wide range of Royce's cross-cultural approach. Her well-crafted volume will be of great interest to anthropologists, arts researchers, and students of cultural studies and performing arts.

Author : Frank J. Korom
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118493090

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The Anthropology of Performance by Frank J. Korom Pdf

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. Leading anthropologists describe the range of human expression through performance and explore its role in constructing identity and community, as well as broader processes such as globalization and transnationalism. Introduces new and advanced students to the task of studying and interpreting complex social, cultural, and political events from a performance perspective Presents performance as a convergent field of inquiry that bridges the humanities and social sciences, with a distinctive cross-cultural perspective in anthropology Demonstrates the range of human expression and meaning through performance in related fields of religious & ritual studies, folkloristics, theatre, language arts, and art & dance Explores the role of performance in constructing identity, community, and the broader processes of globalization and transnationalism Includes fascinating global case studies on a diverse range of phenomena Contributions from leading scholars examine verbal genres, ritual and drama, public spectacle, tourism, and the performances embedded in everyday selves, communities and nations

Author : Richard Schechner
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780812200928

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Between Theater and Anthropology by Richard Schechner Pdf

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.

Author : Eugenio Barba,Nicola Savarese
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135176358

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A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology by Eugenio Barba,Nicola Savarese Pdf

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Gretchen Bakke,Marina Peterson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1472585925

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Anthropology of the Arts by Gretchen Bakke,Marina Peterson Pdf

A comprehensive introduction to the anthropology of the arts, this is the first textbook to go beyond visual art to cover the arts more broadly. Drawing together media such as painting, sound, performance, video, and film, it presents a clear overview of the cross-cultural human experience of art. Introducing students to the basics as well as the latest scholarship, the book features: - 45 chapters which combine classic texts from anthropologists such as Pierre Bourdieu, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Margaret Mead, Bronislaw Malinowski, Alfred Gell, Franz Boas, and Mary Douglas with recent scholarship by George Marcus, Tim Ingold, Roger Sansi, Christopher Pinney, Georgina Born, and others - Both theoretical and ethnographic readings, with coverage ranging from Bali, Papua New Guinea, Egypt, sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, and Australia to the United States - Introductory materials, ethnographic exercises, further reading ideas, and alternative suggestions for navigating the content based on medium, geography, theory, or ethnography Designed for classroom use, Anthropology of the Arts is invaluable for teaching and learning. Engaging and accessible, it is essential reading for students in anthropology of art, anthropology of design, anthropology of performance, and related courses.

Author : John Blacking,Joann W. Kealiinohomoko
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110800692

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The Performing Arts by John Blacking,Joann W. Kealiinohomoko Pdf

Author : Alex Flynn,Jonas Tinius
Publisher : Springer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137350602

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Anthropology, Theatre, and Development by Alex Flynn,Jonas Tinius Pdf

The contributors explore diverse contexts of performance to discuss peoples' own reflections on political subjectivities, governance and development. The volume refocuses anthropological engagement with ethics, aesthetics, and politics to examine the transformative potential of political performance, both for individuals and wider collectives.

Author : Cassis Kilian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000353204

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Attention in Performance by Cassis Kilian Pdf

This book elucidates how learning from actors enables an intense education of attention for anthropologists. Actors perform the perception of sunshine, the sensation of pain, affects such as shock and emotions such as happiness; they act quarrels, erotic attraction, leadership and submission on stage. In order to achieve that, they undergo an education of attention, allowing them to develop skills that are also useful for anthropologists, particularly when doing research on phenomena that often elude academic procedures. Drawing on her own acting experiences and ongoing research with actors from Africa and Europe, Cassis Kilian takes up Tim Ingold’s manifold proposals to reconfigure anthropological research. She introduces approaches actors use to explore the complexity of human life and its bodily, sensual and emotional dimensions, which can be difficult for academics to grasp when examining topics such as everyday practices, traumatic experiences and power relations. Though the book discerns pitfalls in anthropological research and suggests artistic approaches to overcome them, it values anthropology as a discipline whose radical self-reflexive approach allows for such experiments. Including exercises and practical approaches, this is valuable reading for scholars interested in anthropological methods, sensory anthropology, perception and materiality, and theatre anthropology.

Author : Arnd Schneider,Christopher Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000189476

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Anthropology and Art Practice by Arnd Schneider,Christopher Wright Pdf

Anthropology and Art Practice takes an innovative look at new experimental work informed by the newly-reconfigured relationship between the arts and anthropology. This practice-based and visual work can be characterised as 'art-ethnography'. In engaging with the concerns of both fields, this cutting-edge study tackles current issues such as the role of the artist in collaborative work, and the political uses of documentary. The book focuses on key works from artists and anthropologists that engage with 'art-ethnography' and investigates the processes and strategies behind their creation and exhibition.The book highlights the work of a new generation of practitioners in this hybrid field, such as Anthony Luvera, Kathryn Ramey, Brad Butler and Karen Mirza, Kate Hennessy and Jennifer Deger, who work in a diverse range of media - including film, photography, sound and performance. Anthropology and Art Practice suggests a series of radical challenges to assumptions made on both sides of the art/anthropology divide and is intended to inspire further dialogue and provide essential reading for a wide range of students and practitioners.

Author : A. David Napier
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520309272

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Foreign Bodies by A. David Napier Pdf

In five wide-ranging essays, A. David Napier explores the ways in which the foreign becomes literally and metaphorically embodied as a part of cultural identity rather than being seen as something outside it. Pre-classical Greece, Baroque Italy, and Western postmodernism are among the artistic domains Napier considers, while the symbolic terrain ranges from Balinese cosmography to body symbolism in biomedicine.

Author : Eugenio Barba
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134818204

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The Paper Canoe by Eugenio Barba Pdf

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Graham St. John
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1845454626

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Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance by Graham St. John Pdf

In the twenty years following Victor Turner's death, interventions on the interconnected performance modes of play, drama, and community (dimensions of which Turner deemed the limen), and experimental and analytical forays into the anthropologies of experience and consciousness, have complemented and extended Turnerian readings on the moments and sites of culture's becoming. Examining Turner's continued relevance in performance and popular culture, pilgrimage and communitas, as well as Edith Turner's role, the contributors reflect on the wide application of Victor Turner's thought to cultural performance in the early twenty-first century and explore how Turner's ideas have been re-engaged, renovated, and repurposed in studies of contemporary cultural performance.

Author : Victor Witter Turner
Publisher : Paj Publication
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1555540015

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The Anthropology of Performance by Victor Witter Turner Pdf

One of the outstanding books in educational studies. --American Educaitonal Studies Association.

Author : Annegret Huber,Doris Ingrisch,Therese Kaufmann,Johannes Kretz,Gesine Schröder,Tasos Zembylas
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783839452875

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Knowing in Performing by Annegret Huber,Doris Ingrisch,Therese Kaufmann,Johannes Kretz,Gesine Schröder,Tasos Zembylas Pdf

How can performing be transformed into cognition? Knowing in Performing describes dynamic processes of artistic knowledge production in music and the performing arts. Knowing refers to how processual, embodied, and tacit knowledge can be developed from performative practices in music, dance, theatre, and film. By exploring the field of artistic research as a constantly transforming space for participatory and experimental artistic practices, this anthology points the way forward for researchers, artists, and decision-makers inside and outside universities of the arts.

Author : Ivo Strecker,Markus Verne
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857459367

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Astonishment and Evocation by Ivo Strecker,Markus Verne Pdf

All societies are shaped by arts, media, and other persuasive practices that can awe, captivate, enchant or otherwise seem to cast a spell on the audience. Likewise, scholarship itself often is driven by a sense of wonder and a willingness to be open to what lies beyond the obvious. This book broadens and deepens this perspective. Inspired by Stephen Tyler’s view of ethnography as an art of evocation, international scholars from the fields of aesthetics, anthropology, and rhetoric explore the spellbinding power of elusive meanings as people experience them in daily life and while gazing at works of art, watching films or studying other cultures. The book is divided into three parts covering the evocative power of visual art, the immersion in ritual and performance, and the reading, writing, and interpretation of texts. Taken as a whole, the contributions to the book demonstrate how astonishment and evocation deserve an important place in the conceptual repertoire of the human sciences.