Ritual, performance, media
By: edited by Felicia Hughes-Freeland.
Contributors: Hughes-Freeland, Felicia, 1954-; Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth. Conference
Series: ASA monographs ;; 35; A.S.A. monographs ;; 35.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Rites and ceremonies -- Congresses; Performing arts -- Congresses; Mass media -- Congresses
Description: How can media and performance studies take a place in the discipline of anthropology? IRitual, Performance, Mediademonstrates how individual inventiveness makes society a process of dynamic interaction between creativity and convention. Human beings perform their roles in accordance with the context of the situation--be it in theater, dance, or rites such as spirit invocation or pilgrimages--yet continue to creatively devise ways of extending their engagement with the situation. Case studies of human behavior in relation to contexts in which reality is more than that of everyday routines shows how people continue to actively construct the world in which they live, for the purpose of personal satisfaction and social advantage.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on papers first presented at the ASA Conference, held at the University of Wales, Swansea, in Mar. 1996.