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Aesthetics in Performance

Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience

Edited by Angela Hobart and Bruce Kapferer

252 pages, index

ISBN  978-1-57181-567-5 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Published (June 2005)

ISBN  978-1-84545-315-2 $34.95/£27.95 / Pb / Published (December 2006)

eISBN 978-1-78238-204-1 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781571815675


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“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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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.

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.

Bruce Kapferer is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Adjunct Professor at James Cook University and Honorary Professor at University College London.

Subject: Performance StudiesAnthropology (General)Cultural Studies (General)


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