The Anthropology of Cultural Performance [electronic resource] /
Lewis, L.author.
Contemporary life in most nation-states is not truly cultural, but rather "culture-like," especially in large-scale societies. Beginning with a distinction between special events and everyday life, Lewis examines fundamental events including play, ritual, work, and carnival and connects personal embodied habits and large-scale cultural practices.
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""The Anthropology of Cultural Performance""; ""Contents""; ""Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""CHAPTER 1: Special Events and Everyday Life""; ""Defining Performance as a Mediated Distinction""; ""Performativity as Potential""; ""Spontaneous and Planned Events""; ""Culture as Performance: Meaning and Power""; ""Practice and Habit""; ""Deep Role Play""; ""CHAPTER 2: Play as Performance: Exploring P/p Relations""; ""The Centrality of Play: Free and Bounded""; ""Mediating P/p Relations""; ""Games and Sports""; ""A Note on Work""; ""CHAPTER 3: Rituals and Ritual-Like Genres""
""Reformulating Ritual""""Problems with Liminality""; ""From Liminoid to Ritual-Like""; ""Efficacy and Obligation""; ""Criteria toward a Definition of Ritual""; ""Ritual-Like Genres and Ritualization""; ""Play and Ritual Compared""; ""CHAPTER 4: Performative Processes: Types of P/p Relations""; ""Reinforcement and Inversion""; ""Neutralization, Transformation, and Reformation""; ""Carnivals in Social Settings""; ""Sex and Gender Play""; ""Religious Differences""; ""Politics in Festivity""; ""Overt and Tacit Effects of Performance""; ""CHAPTER 5: Embodiment, Emplacement, and Cultural Process""
""Emplacement, Temporality, and Consciousness""""Selfhood in Development""; ""Intersubjectivity as Intercorporeality""; ""Basic Cultural Patterns: Iconic Propagation and Repetition""; ""CHAPTER 6: Problems in Performance and Cultural Theory""; ""The Omnibus Approach""; ""The Post-Theoretical Approach""; ""Recent Sociological Approaches""; ""Cognitive Approaches""; ""Problems of Performance Auto-Ethnography""; ""Patterns of Culture""; ""Contemporary Societies as â€œCulture-Likeâ€? Phenomena""; ""The Circulation of Practice and Habit""; ""A Plea for an Ecological Approach""; ""Notes""
""References""""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contemporary life in most nation-states is not truly cultural, but rather "culture-like," especially in large-scale societies. Beginning with a distinction between special events and everyday life, Lewis examines fundamental events including play, ritual, work, and carnival and connects personal embodied habits and large-scale cultural practices.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Anthropology.
Ethnology.
Performing arts.
Theater.
Sociology.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Performing Arts.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Sociology, general.