Between Theater and Anthropology - Couverture souple

Schechner, Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0812212258 ISBN 13 : 9780812212259

Editeur : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

RICHARD SCHECHNER is Professor of Performance Studies at New York University He was founder/director of the Performance Group, edits The Drama Review, and has written numerous articles and books, including The End of Humanism and Essays on Performance Theory.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

"What the seven essays of the new book provide-aside from reflection on the incredible diversity of performative events (rituals, games, sports, psychodrama and innumerable hybrids of theatre) and the mediatized fictions by which older forms are 'preserved'-4s a fieldworker's view of 'performance consciousness as the subjunctive mode of activating alternatives .... An impressively omnibus book"-American Theatre.

"Provocative .... Schechner is aggressively cross-cultural. His examples are drawn from his own field observations of Ramlila and Kathakali in India, from Noh and Kabuki in Japan, from the Yaqui and the Balinese, from Disneyland, Plimoth Plantation, a Black church in Brooklyn, a sadomasochistic theater in Manhattan, and the San Diego Zoo. His genres range from ritual, theater, dance, and other performing arts to restored villages, tourist attractions, time machines, theme parks, and prime time television news .... Schechner's book makes us rethink such familiar terms as 'text,' 'context,' and 'performance.'... We learn how culture-bound we have become in accepting recent Euro-American conventions as natural, such as a narrative structure based on conflict and resolution, the authority of the author, and the arrangement of a center stage before a passive audience seated in rows .... This is a major work"-American Anthropologist.

"Between Theatre and Anthropology is Schechner's account of Ide on the 'liminoid' track-a fast one at that-between disciplines that have come to achieve a cozy mutual admiration .... In style and scope the book is recognizably an anthology, . . . a sampling, provocatively put together, of Schechner's views about what anthropology and theatre have to say to each other .... Between Theatre and Anthropology is undoubtedly a major work in the field of performance studies. It promises to keep Schechner's name at the forefront of that field, and to reward the reader with ideas that, like modern theatre, will entertain, disturb, engage"-Journal of Ritual Studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Date d'édition: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0812212258
• ISBN 13: 9780812212259
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible