Aesthetics in Performance: Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience

Published by Berghahn Books 2005

Aesthetics in Performance

Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience

Edited by: Angela Hobart and Bruce Kapferer

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782382041

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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.

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.

Reviews

“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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
INTRODUCTION The Aesthetics of Symbolic Construction and Experience Bruce Kapferer and Angela Hobart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One MAKING GROWN MEN WEEP William O. Beeman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter Two THE BUZZ OF GOD AND THE CLICK OF DELIGHT David Shulman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Chapter Three SONGS OF LOVE, IMAGES OF MEMORY Saskia Kersenboom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Chapter Four THE HINDU TEMPLE AND THE AESTHETICS OF THE IMAGINARY Rohan Bastin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Chapter Five WHERE DIVINE HORSEMEN RIDE Trance Dancing in West Africa Steven M. Friedson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Chapter Six SORCERY AND THE BEAUTIFUL ADiscourse on the Aesthetics of Ritual Bruce Kapferer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Chapter Seven TRANSFORMATION AND AESTHETICS IN BALINESE MASKED PERFORMANCES— RANGDA AND BARONG Angela Hobart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Chapter Eight ACONCISE REFLECTION ON THE BRAZILIAN CARNIVAL Roberto DaMatta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Chapter Nine BUREAUCRATIC LOGIC, BUREAUCRATIC AESTHETICS The Opening Event of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day in Israel Don Handelman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
Chapter Ten COMPASSION FOR ANIMALS, INDIFFERENCE TO HUMANS Non- and Misperceptions among Circus Audiences in 1970s Britain Yoram S. Carmeli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 252
Keywords: Performance Studies; Anthropology (General); Cultural Studies (General)

eBook

Published: June 1, 2005
ISBN: 9781782382041