Aesthetics in Performance

Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-57181-567-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hobart, Angela

Kapferer, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Andere Darstellende Künste

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Kapferer, Bruce
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.

Hobart, Angela
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.

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.