| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 239 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : the aesthetics of symbolic construction and experience / Bruce Kapferer and Angela Hobart -- Making grown men weep / William O. Beeman -- The buzz of God and the click of delight / David Shulman -- Songs of love, images of memory / Saskia Kersenboom -- The Hindu temple and the aesthetics of the imaginary / Rohan Bastin -- Where divine horsemen ride : trance dancing in West Africa / Steven M. Friedson -- Sorcery and the beautiful : a discourse on the aesthetics of ritual / Bruce Kapferer -- Transformation and aesthetics in Balinese masked performances -- Rangda and Barong / Angela Hobart -- A concise reflection on the Brazilian carnival / Roberto DaMatta -- Bureaucratic logic, bureaucratic aesthetics : the opening event of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day in Israel / Don Handelman -- Compassion for animals, indifference to humans : non- and misperceptions among circus audiences in 1970s Britain / Yoram S. Carmeli |
| Summary |
"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."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Text in English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Aesthetics.
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Experience.
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Symbolism.
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Ritual.
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Performing arts -- Philosophy
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
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PERFORMING ARTS / General
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Aesthetics
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Experience
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Performing arts -- Philosophy
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Ritual
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Symbolism
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Darstellende Kunst
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Erfahrung
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Ritual
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Symbol
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Ästhetik
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hobart, Angela
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Kapferer, Bruce
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| ISBN |
9781782382041 |
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1782382046 |
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