ABSTRACT
The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of the foundations, epistemologies, methodologies, key topics and current debates, and future directions in the field. It brings together work from the disciplines of anthropology and performance studies, as well as adjacent fields. Across 31 chapters, a diverse range of international scholars cover topics including:
- Ritual
- Theater
- Storytelling
- Music
- Dance
- Textiles
- Land Acknowledgments
- Indigenous Identity
- Visual Arts
- Embodiment
- Cognition
- Healing
- Festivals
- Politics
- Activism
- The Law
- Race and Ethnicity
- Gender and Sexuality
- Class
- Religion, Spirituality, and Faith
- Disability
- Leisure, Gaming, and Sport
In addition, the included Appendix offers tools, exercises, and activities designed by contributors as useful suggestions to readers, both within and beyond academic contexts, to take the insights of performance anthropology into their work. This is a valuable reference for scholars and upper-level students in anthropology, performance studies, and related disciplines, including religious studies, art, philosophy, history, political science, gender studies, and education.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|106 pages
Histories, Theories, and Frameworks
chapter 2|13 pages
In the Spirit of Experience, Reflexivity, and Growth
part II|94 pages
Performing as a Way of Knowing
chapter 8|16 pages
Anthropology and Laboratory Theater
chapter 9|17 pages
Miraculous Stories and the Re-enchantment of the World
chapter 10|15 pages
Who's Performing When the God Dancer Dances?
chapter 13|15 pages
Construction with Varied Materials
part III|106 pages
Performance and Identity
chapter 14|17 pages
Propia de Saraguro
chapter 16|17 pages
Embodied Cultural Knowledge in Practice
chapter 20|13 pages
(Accidentally) Doing Whiteness
part IV|95 pages
Performance and/as Cultural Critique
chapter 24|18 pages
On Carnivals and Capitalism
chapter 25|13 pages
Egyptian Belly Dance IS Feeling
chapter 26|14 pages
#Capoeiristas for Black Lives
part V|79 pages
The Future of Performance Anthropology