A current project, editing Margaret Mead's post-war writings on complex Western cultures is part of this effort. Two more volumes Russian Culture and Themes in French Culture will be published this year. Mead and her collaborators were masters of the study of national identities. Finally, I am working on a book that will analyze my experience singing in an opera theater in eastern Germany. This project is in many ways a culmination of all of the themes I have been working on these many years.
Performers bear a great burden in their work.
They must be great communicative artists, and at the same time hold up a standard for their community and nation. They are living embodiments of their society through their use of performative communication. Sri Lanka, Spain, Ireland, India and Japan.