From ritual to theatre : the human seriousness of play /
Turner, Victor Witter,
From ritual to theatre : the human seriousness of play / Victor Turner. - 127 pages ; 23 cm. - Performance studies series ; 1st v . - Performance studies series ; 1st v. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Liminal to liminoid, in play, flow, ritual: an essay in comparative symbology -- Social dramas and stories about them -- Dramatic ritual/ritual drama: performative and reflexive anthropology -- Acting in everyday life and everyday life in acting.
""Turner looks beyond his routinized discipline to an anthropology of experience... We must admire him for this." -- Times Literary SupplementHow is social action related to aesthetics? In what ways do the large and small crises that fill not only the nightly TV news but also our daily lives relate to the genre of theater? Victor Turner deals with these and other questions in a classic study that ranges from anthropology to acting, from everyday life to artistic genres."--Publisher description.
0933826168 9780933826168 0933826176 9780933826175
81083751
Rites and ceremonies
Theater and society
Play.
Drama.
GN473 / .T84 1982 PN2049 / .T87
306.4848
From ritual to theatre : the human seriousness of play / Victor Turner. - 127 pages ; 23 cm. - Performance studies series ; 1st v . - Performance studies series ; 1st v. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Liminal to liminoid, in play, flow, ritual: an essay in comparative symbology -- Social dramas and stories about them -- Dramatic ritual/ritual drama: performative and reflexive anthropology -- Acting in everyday life and everyday life in acting.
""Turner looks beyond his routinized discipline to an anthropology of experience... We must admire him for this." -- Times Literary SupplementHow is social action related to aesthetics? In what ways do the large and small crises that fill not only the nightly TV news but also our daily lives relate to the genre of theater? Victor Turner deals with these and other questions in a classic study that ranges from anthropology to acting, from everyday life to artistic genres."--Publisher description.
0933826168 9780933826168 0933826176 9780933826175
81083751
Rites and ceremonies
Theater and society
Play.
Drama.
GN473 / .T84 1982 PN2049 / .T87
306.4848