'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.' - from publisher's website
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Onsite

Location code
REF.SCR3
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English

Publication/Creation date

1985

No of pages

342

ISBN / ISSN

9780812212259

No of copies

1

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

Foreword - Victor TURNER

Points of Contact between Anthropological and Theatrical Thought

Restoration of Behavior

Performers and Spectators Transported and Transformed

Ramilila of Ramnagar

Performer Training Interculturally

Playing with Genet's Balcony: Looking back on a 1979/1980 Production

News, Sex, and Performance Theory

Between Theater and Anthropology
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Between Theater and Anthropology

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