Ritual and event
Subtitle: interdisciplinary perspectives
By: edited by Mark Franko.
Contributors: Franko, Mark.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Association of ideas; Rites and ceremonies; Performance; Social psychology
Description: "Catastrophic contemporary events challenge ritual's power to reconcile and heal the destitute, disenfranchised, and dying. The essays in this book reasses and revise the traditionally understood relationships between ritual and politics, ritual and everyday life, ritual and art making, and ritual and disaster in the post-Hiroshima, HIV/AIDS, 9/11 era. The contributions range in subject matter from choreography, film, photography, and visual culture to theatre, religious studies, semiotics and literature. The essays are unified by the question: how can ritual confront the event today?"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Introduction: eventful knowledge and the post-ritual turn" / Mark Franko; title: Critical historiographies/new formations; title: "Going back to Bateson: towards a semiotics of (post-ritual) performance" / Sally A. Ness; title: "Performative interventions: African community theatre in the age of AIDS" / Ola Johansson; title: "Ritually failing: Turner's theatrical communitas" / Andrew C. Wegley; title: "Situation and event: the destinations of sense" / Tyrus Miller; title: Case studies from the performative and visual archives; title: "The terrorist event" / Bill Nichols; title: "Gojira vs. godzilla: catastrophic allegories" / Aaron Kerner; title: "Given movement: dance and the event" / Mark Franko; title: "Illness as danced urban ritual" / Janice Ross; title: "Post-colonial torture: rituals of viewing at Abu Ghraib" / Catherine M. Soussloff; title: Index.