From ritual to theatre : the human seriousness of play / Victor Turner.

By:

Turner, Victor Witter [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0933826168
9780933826168
0933826176
9780933826175

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306.4848 23

LOC classification:

GN473 .T84 1982
PN2049 .T87

Contents:

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.

Summary: ""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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

""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.

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