From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play

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Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1982 - 127 sider
"How 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 theatre? And how are cultures as seemingly different as the Ndembu of Africa and the pluralistic mini-societies of today's America related? Victor Turner--author, teacher, theorist--deals with these manifold connections in this book of essays which range from anthropology to acting to directing, from everyday life to play to genres of art. He writes about "liminality"-- that particular kind of being "in between" so familiar to actors, artists, musicians, shamans. He explains the connections between the "social dramas" that punctuate our lives both on the large scale, such as Watergate and the Iranian hostage crisis and, on the small scale, in ordinary living and the "aesthetic dramas" known to us through literature and theatre." --

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INTRODUCTION
7
SOCIAL DRAMAS AND STORIES ABOUT THEM
61
ACTING IN EVERYDAY LIFE AND
102
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Victor Turner was born in Scotland and educated in England. He began his career as a research officer with the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in northern Rhodesia. Best known for his ethnographic studies of ritual and social process among the Ndembu, Turner also produced significant theoretical insights about rites of passage, the psychology of healing, conflict management, the importance of drama and play, and the theory of symbolic interpretation. He spent much of his career at universities in the United States and was among the leading figures in the turn to symbolic interpretation that marked American anthropology during the 1960s and 1970s.

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