Name: Between Theater and Anthropology (in English)
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Author: Richard Schechner
ISBN: 9780812212259

portada Between Theater and Anthropology (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Richard Schechner

Contributions by

Victor Turner

Publisher

University Of Pennsylvania Press

Year

1985

Language

English

Pages

360

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6 x 15.0 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.54

ISBN

0812212258

ISBN13

9780812212259

Synopsis "Between Theater and Anthropology (in English)"

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.