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Aesthetics in performance : formations of symbolic construction and experience /
"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 enter...
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2005.
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Table of 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.