The Anthropology of Cultural Performance - J. Lowell Lewis

The Anthropology of Cultural Performance
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Autor: J. Lowell Lewis

 Wydawnictwo: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781137343987
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Oprawa: twarda
Stron: 202
Data wydania: 2013-08-01
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Contemporary life in most large-scale societies is not truly cultural, in the strong sense, but rather merely 'culture-like.' Using a semeiotic phenomenological approach based on the work of philosopher C.S. Peirce, Lewis presents a framework for understanding performative events in any cultural life-world. By revisiting Victor Turner's work on ritual and engaging with those who have built upon his ideas, the book presents a program for making connections between intimate embodied habits and major cultural practices in a given social setting. Beginning with a distinction between special events and everyday life, Lewis examines fundamental event types including play, ritual, work, and carnival. "A masterful and nuanced expansion of Victor Turner's pioneering work on the ritual process and on culture as a procession of quotidian events and critical performances. Drawing on Peirce's semiotics and on phenomenology, J. Lowell Lewis simultaneously provides an interdisciplinary perspective on performance studies and opens up new theoretical horizons on role-playing, ritual and dramaturgy in social life." - Michael D. Jackson, author of Lifeworlds: Essays in Existential Anthropology

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J. Lowell Lewis