Aesthetics in Performance
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Aesthetics in Performance: Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience

Aesthetics in Performance: Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience


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In various ways, the essays presented in this volume explore the structures and aesthetic possibilities of music, dance and dramatic representation in ritual and theatrical situations in a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Each essay enters into a discussion of the “logic” of aesthetic processes exploring their social and political and symbolic import. The aim is above all to explore the way artistic and aesthetic practices in performance produce and structure experience.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Aesthetics of Symbolic Construction and Experience Bruce Kapferer and Angela Hobart Chapter 1. Making Grown Men Weep William O. Beeman Chapter 2. The Buzz of God and the Click of Delight David Shulman Chapter 3. Songs of Love, Images of Memory Saskia Kersenboom Chapter 4. The Hindu Temple and the Aesthetics of the Imaginary Rohan Bastin Chapter 5. Where Divine Horsemen Ride: Trance Dancing in West Africa Steven M. Friedson Chapter 6. Sorcery and the Beautiful: A Discourse on the Aesthetics of Ritual Bruce Kapferer Chapter 7. Transformation and Aesthetics in Balinese Masked Performances—Rangda and Barong Angela Hobart Chapter 8. A Concise Reflection on the Brazilian Carnival Roberto DaMatta Chapter 9. Bureaucratic Logic, Bureaucratic Aesthetics: The Opening Event of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day in Israel Don Handelman Chapter 10. Compassion for Animals, Indifference to Humans: Non- and Misperceptions among Circus Audiences in 1970s Britain Yoram S. Carmeli Notes on Contributors Index

About the Author :
Angela Hobart is the coordinating lecturer at Goldsmiths College on Intercultural Therapy and lectures at the British Museum on the Art and Culture of South East Asia.

Review :
“There is much to recommend in this volume…a fascinating array of cases …an excellent job [by the editors] of introducing the main issues…many of the essays are accompanied by illustrations and photographs that enhance and exemplify the arguments.”  ·  Eyal Ben-Ari in JRAI


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781845453152
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 252
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 358 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1845453158
  • Publisher Date: 01 Dec 2006
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience
  • Width: 152 mm


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