Ritual and event : interdisciplinary perspectives /
Franko, Mark.
London ; New York : Routledge,
2007.
Includes index.
Introduction : eventful knowledge and the post-ritual turn / Mark Franko -- Critical historiographies/new formations -- Going back to Bateson : toward a semiotics of (post- )ritual performance / Sally A. Ness -- Performative interventions : African community theatre in the age of AIDS / Ola Johansson -- Ritually failing : Turner's theatrical communitas / Andrew C. Wegley -- Situation and event : the destinations of sense / Tyrus Miller -- Case studies from the performative and visual archives -- The terrorist event / Bill Nichols -- Gojira vs Godzilla : catastrophic allegories / Aaron Kerner -- Given movement : dance and the event / Mark Franko -- Illness as danced urban ritual / Janice Ross -- Post-colonial torture : rituals of viewing at Abu Ghraib / Catherine M. Soussloff.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Association of ideas.
Rites and ceremonies.
Performance.
Social psychology.