Ritual and event : interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Mark Franko.

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Other Authors: Franko, Mark
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Series:Routledge advances in theatre and performance studies ; 7.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : eventful knowledge and the post-ritual turn / Mark Franko
  • Critical historiographies/new formations
  • Going back to Bateson : toward a semiotics of (post- )ritual performance / Sally A. Ness
  • Performative interventions : African community theatre in the age of AIDS / Ola Johansson
  • Ritually failing : Turner's theatrical communitas / Andrew C. Wegley
  • Situation and event : the destinations of sense / Tyrus Miller
  • Case studies from the performative and visual archives
  • The terrorist event / Bill Nichols
  • Gojira vs Godzilla : catastrophic allegories / Aaron Kerner
  • Given movement : dance and the event / Mark Franko
  • Illness as danced urban ritual / Janice Ross
  • Post-colonial torture : rituals of viewing at Abu Ghraib / Catherine M. Soussloff.