By Means of Performance
Intercultural Studies of Theatre and Ritual

Table of Contents

List of figures
Notes of contributors
Introduction
1. Are there universals of performance in myth, ritual, and drama?
2. Magnitudes of performance
3. Liminality: a synthesis of subjective and objective experience
4. The Yaqui deer dance at Pascua Pueblo, Arizona
5. The Yaqui point of view: on Yaqui ceremonies and anthropologies
6. Performance of precepts/precepts of performance: Hasidic celebrations of Purim in Brooklyn
7. The significance of performance for its audience: an analysis of three Sri Lankan rituals
8. What does it mean to 'become the character': power, presence, and transcendence in Asian in-body disciplines of practice
9. Korean shamans: role playing through trance possession
10. The practice of noh theatre
11. The profanation of the sacred in circus clown performances
12. Ethnographic notes on sacred and profane performance
13. The spatial sense of the sacred in Spanish America and the American South and its tie with performance
14. Space and context
15. The transformation of consciousness in ritual performances: some thoughts and questions
16. Universals of performance
or amortising play
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.

Look Inside

• Front Matter (486 KB)
• Index (649 KB)
• Copyright Information Page (58 KB)
• Marketing Excerpt (546 KB)
• Table of Contents (66 KB)