From ritual to theatre : the human seriousness of play / Victor Turner.
""Turner looks beyond his routinized discipline to an anthropology of experience... We must admire him for this." -- Times Literary SupplementHow is social action related to aesthetics? In what ways do the large and small crises that fill not only the nightly TV news but also our dail...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York City :
Performing Arts Journal Publications,
[1982]
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| Series: | Performance studies series ;
1st v. |
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| Summary: | ""Turner looks beyond his routinized discipline to an anthropology of experience... We must admire him for this." -- Times Literary SupplementHow is social action related to aesthetics? In what ways do the large and small crises that fill not only the nightly TV news but also our daily lives relate to the genre of theater? Victor Turner deals with these and other questions in a classic study that ranges from anthropology to acting, from everyday life to artistic genres."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | 127 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0933826168 9780933826168 0933826176 9780933826175 |