The Anthropology of Performance : A Reader.

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 -- References -- Chapter 16: Performing the Nation: China's Children as Little Red Pioneers -- Accounting for Nationalism -- Performing the Nation -- The Little Red Pioneers -- Pioneers and the Nation -- Fear of Water: Performance, Reiteration, and "Getting It Wrong" -- References -- Part V: Tourist Performances and the Global Ecumene -- Chapter 17: The Promise of Sonic Translation: Performing the Festive Sacred in Morocco -- The Festive Sacred and the Promise of Sonic Translation -- Learning to Listen -- The Festive Sacred: Beyond the Nation -- Defining the Sacred -- The Fes Festival of Sacred Music In Situ -- "The Spirit of Fes" and and the Reification of Place -- Attending to Audition -- Sufi Nights, Sacred Tourism.

"Giving Soul to Globalization" -- Conclusion: Sacred Aesthetics and the Festive Sacred -- References -- Chapter 18: Ethnic Tourism in Hokkaidô and the Shaping of Ainu Identity -- Introduction -- Ethnic Tourism and the Commoditisation of Cultures -- Ainu Ethnic Tourism in Hokkaidô -- Tourism and the Ainu -- Tourism, Ainu Cultural Expressions, and Ainu Ethnic Identities -- Towards the Future -- Chapter 19: What They Came With: Carnival and the Persistence of African Performance Aesthetics in the Diaspora -- Phenomenology and the Theory of Translocation -- Semiological Similarities between African Festivals and Diasporic Carnivals -- Myth in African and African Diasporic Festival/Carnival Performance -- Conclusion: Carnival as an Encyclopedia of Other Literacies -- References -- Chapter 20: Global Breakdancing and the Intercultural Body -- Hip Hop's Global Proliferation -- Urban Movement in Hawai'i -- Performing Race: Performativity as Complex Embodiment -- Hip Hop's Two-Pronged Bodily Text -- Hip Hop Postmodernity: Dimensions of Late Capitalism and Cultural Studies -- Conclusions -- References -- Further Readings -- Index.

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