Ritual Plays

Author : Victor Witter Turner
Publisher : New York City : Performing Arts Journal Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Ritual to Theatre written by Victor Witter Turner and published by New York City : Performing Arts Journal Publications. This book was released on 1982 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turner looks beyond his routinized discipline to an anthropology of experience . . . We must admire him for this.-Times Literary Supplement

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134474288
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual: Exploring Forms of Political Theatre written by Erika Fischer-Lichte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating volume, acclaimed theatre historian Erika Fischer-Lichte reflects on the role and meaning accorded to the theme of sacrifice in Western cultures as mirrored in particular fusions of theatre and ritual. Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual presents a radical re-definition of ritual theatre through analysis of performances as diverse as: Max Reinhardt's new people's theatre the mass spectacles of post-revolutionary Russia American Zionist pageants the Olympic Games. In offering both a performative and a semiotic analysis of such performances, Fischer-Lichte expertly demonstrates how theatre and ritual are fused in order to tackle the problem of community-building in societies characterised by loss of solidarity and disintegration, and exposes the provocative connection between the utopian visions of community they suggest, and the notion of sacrifice. This innovative study of twentieth-century performative culture boldly examines the complexities of political theatre, propaganda and manipulation of the masses, and offers a revolutionary approach to the study of theatre and performance history.

Author : Claire Schrader
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1849051380
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ritual Theatre written by Claire Schrader and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the relevance of ritual theatre in contemporary life and describes how it is being used as a highly cathartic therapeutic process. With contributions from leading experts in the field of dramatherapy, the book brings together a broad spectrum of approaches to ritual theatre as a healing system.

Author : Margaret Thompson Drewal
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253112737
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yoruba Ritual written by Margaret Thompson Drewal and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-22 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yoruba peoples of southwestern Nigeria conceive of rituals as journeys -- sometimes actual, sometimes virtual. Performed as a parade or a procession, a pilgrimage, a masking display, or possession trance, the journey evokes the reflexive, progressive, transformative experience of ritual participation. Yoruba Ritual is an original and provocative study of these practices. Using a performance paradigm, Margaret Thompson Drewal forges a new theoretical and methodological approach to the study of ritual that is thoroughly grounded in close analysis of the thoughts and actions of the participants. Challenging traditional notions of ritual as rigid, stereotypic, and invariant, Drewal reveals ritual to be progressive, transformative, generative, and reflexive and replete with simultaneity, multifocality, contingency, indeterminacy, and intertextuality. Throughout the book prominence is given to the intentionality of actors as knowledgeable agents who transform ritual itself through play and improvisation. Integral to the narrative are interpolations about performances and their meanings by Kolawole Ositola, a scholar of Yoruba oral tradition, ritual practitioner, diviner, and master performer. Rich descriptions of rituals relating to birth, death, reincarnation, divination, and constructions of gender are rendered all the more vivid by a generous selection of field photos of actual performances.

Author : Katherine H. Burkman
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838632994
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Myth and Ritual in the Plays of Samuel Beckett written by Katherine H. Burkman and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of the essays in this collection reflect a sense that Beckett's power as a playwright derives largely from a mythic vision that informs his drama. Their approaches to the definition and use of myth and ritual in his plays vary considerably, however, ranging from the Jungian to the Marxian to the Lacanian, and drawing on the theories of Campbell, Freud, Eliade, Frye, Turner, Girard, Baudrillard, and others.

Author : Inge Nielsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultic Theatres and Ritual Drama written by Inge Nielsen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-illustrated book thoroughly investigates the relations between East and West in the Ancient world as seen through the lens of ancient religious practices. The author has concentrated on one aspect of the cult, the ritual drama, and its setting, the cultic theatre.The point of departure is the presence of a great amount of theatrical structures in the sanctuaries in Greece and Italy. Many of these structures were not proper theatres in the modern sense of the word, but rather primitive rows of seats, 'a place to watch from', which is in fact the original meaning of the word 'theatre'. These structures have never before been examined from a functional viewpoint, and the author proposes that their primary raison d'etre was the performance of ritual dramas at the great seasonal feasts. These non-literary dramas re-enacted the story or myth of the divinity, which in symbolic form treated the crises connected with precarious transitions during the agricultural year and human life in general.For various reasons, which she describes, the author points to the relative obscurity of this religious institution in the Greek and Roman world, and notes that as a result, it has received scant attention from scholars. In contrast, it is well known that ritual dramas had been performed in the distant past at the great seasonal feasts of the Orient, and the book includes an excellent overview of the development of this institution as well as the setting chosen for it in the Egyptian, Syrio-Phoenician and Anatolian cults, both in their homelands and in their new host countries in the West.This is a fascinating book for archaeologists and classicists, as well as for anthropologists andhistorians of religion, but it also gives food for thought for those who simply want to l

Author : Ingrid Hentschel
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825872694
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Play - ritual - representation written by Ingrid Hentschel and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2005 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Colin Renfrew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110714356X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ritual, Play, and Belief in Evolution and Early Human Societies written by Colin Renfrew and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents unique new insights into the development of human ritual and society through our heritage of play and performance.

Author : Francis Edwards
Publisher : James Clarke & Co.
ISBN 13 : 9780718821807
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ritual and Drama written by Francis Edwards and published by James Clarke & Co.. This book was released on 1976 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the development of medieval drama from its origins from Christian rituals, the growth of the dramatic idea, styles of dramatic presentation, and the evolution of the morality play. This work focuses on the time period of the 900s to the end of the 1400s A.D.

Author : Sue Jennings
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317725476
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre, Ritual and Transformation written by Sue Jennings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sue Jennings and her three children spent two years on a fieldwork expedition to the Senoi Temiar people of Malaysia: Theatre, Ritual and Transformation is a fascinating account of that experience. She describes how the Temiar regularly perform seances which are enacted through dreams, dance, music and drama, and explains that they see the seance as playing a valuable preventative role in people's lives, as well as being a medium of healing and cure. Her account brings together the insights of drama, therapy and theatre with those of social anthropology to provide an invaluable theoretical framework for understanding theatre and ritual and their links with healing.