Aesthetics in Performance: Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience Contributor(s): Hobart, Angela (Editor), Kapferer, Bruce (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1571815678 ISBN-13: 9781571815675 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2005 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Performing Arts |
Dewey: 111.85 |
LCCN: 2004056002 |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.12 lbs) 252 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hobart, Angela: - 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. Kapferer, Bruce: -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. |