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The Anthropology of Performance A Reader.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Korom, Frank J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013.
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Wiley-Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Acknowledgments to Sources
  • The Anthropology of Performance: An Introduction
  • Part I: Performance in Prehistory and Antiquity
  • Chapter 1: Singing the Rug: Patterned Textiles and the Origins of Indo-European Metrical Poetry
  • References
  • Chapter 2: Performance and Written Literature in Classical Greece: Envisaging Performance from Written Literature and Comparative Contexts
  • Song Culture
  • Conclusion
  • Part II: Verbal Genres of Performance
  • Chapter 3: Playing the Dozens
  • Dozens' Replies
  • Chapter 4: The La Have Island General Store: Sociability and Verbal Art in a Nova Scotia Community
  • Appendix
  • Text A
  • Text B
  • Chapter 5: Proverbs and the Ethnography of Speaking Folklore
  • Introduction
  • Studying Proverbs as Communication
  • Some Yoruba Proverbs of Child Training
  • Discussion
  • Proverbs and Channel
  • Conclusion
  • Proverb Texts
  • References
  • Chapter 6: Gbaya Riddles in Changing Times
  • References
  • Chapter 7: Shadows of Song: Exploring Research and Performance Strategies in Yolngu Women's Crying-Songs
  • Arnhem Land Performance Research
  • Seeing Musically
  • Strategies of Formation and Location
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Part III: Ritual, Drama, and Public Spectacle
  • Chapter 8: Prayer as Person: The Performative Force in Navajo Prayer Acts
  • An Outline of Navajo Ceremonialism
  • Holyway Ceremonials
  • Holyway Prayer
  • The Prayer as a Pragmatic Act
  • "Doctrine of the Infelicities"
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 9: Performance and the Cultural Construction of Reality
  • Introduction: Meaning-centered Analyses of Ritual
  • The Kaluli Setting
  • The Séance Performance
  • Playing the Urgency of the Social Situation
  • The Strategy of the Songs
  • The Ostensible Work of the Séance
  • Séance Performance and the Construction of Cosmological Context
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 10: "He Should Have Worn a Sari":A "Failed" Performance of a Central Indian Oral Epic
  • The Candaini Epic and Its Performance
  • The Failed Performance
  • Audience Expectation and Performance Language
  • Toward New Performance Languages
  • References
  • Chapter 11: Representing History: Performing the Columbian Exposition
  • Chapter 12: The Palio of Siena: Performance and Process
  • Siena
  • The Contrada
  • Contrada Structure
  • Contrada Members
  • The Individual and Contrada Life
  • Role Reversals
  • Space and Time
  • After the Palio
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Part IV: Performance and Politics in the Making of Communities
  • Chapter 13: Poetry and Politics in a Transylvanian Village
  • References
  • Chapter 14: The Matter of Talk: Political Performances in Bhatgaon
  • Bhatgaon: A Fiji Indian Community
  • Contexts
  • Textures
  • Texts
  • Unconventional Performances
  • References
  • Chapter 15: Celebrating Cricket: The Symbolic Construction of Caribbean Politics
  • Blacks in Whites
  • Conclusion

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