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The second edition of an important introductory textbook by a prime mover in the field of Performance Studies, which was a defining moment for the discipline. It provides a lively and accessible overview of the full range of performance for undergraduates at all levels and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies. It includes discussion of the performing arts and popular entertainment, rituals, play and games as well as the performances of every day life. Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the performing arts, anthropology, post-structuralism, ritual theory, ethology, philosophy and aesthetics. The text has been fully revised and updated, developed with input from leading teachers and trilled with students. User-friendly, with a special text design, it also includes the following features: Extracts from primary sources giving alternative voices and viewpoints Biographies of key thinkers "Things to think about" and "things to do" to stimulate fieldwork, classroom exercises and discussion Key reading lists for each chapter 20 line drawings and 173 b/w photographs drawn from private and public collections around the world.

Theatrical science --- Performing arts. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Theater --- Anthropological aspects. --- Performing arts --- Rites and ceremonies --- Theater anthropology --- Anthropology --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Show business --- Arts --- Performance art --- Anthropological aspects

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Archaeology and religion. --- Ethnoarchaeology. --- Ritual. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Archéologie et religion --- Ethnoarchéologie --- Rituel --- Rites et cérémonies --- Archéologie et religion --- Ethnoarchéologie --- Rites et cérémonies --- Archaeology and religion --- Ethnoarchaeology --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ritual --- Cult --- Cultus --- Liturgies --- Public worship --- Symbolism --- Worship --- Ritualism --- Ceremonies --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ethnic archaeology --- Ethnicity in archaeology --- Ethnology in archaeology --- Archaeology --- Ethnology --- Social archaeology --- Religion and archaeology --- Religion --- Methodology --- Religious aspects

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This volume presents a series of papers delivered at a two-day session of the Theban Workshop held at the British Museum in September 2003. Due to its political and religious prominence throughout much of pharaonic history, the region of ancient Thebes offers scholars a wealth of monuments whose physical remains and extant iconography may be combined with textual sources and archaeological finds in ways that elucidate the function of sacred space as initially conceived, and which also reveal adaptations to human need or shifts in cultural perception. The contributions herein address issues such as the architectural framing of religious ceremony, the implicit performative responses of officiants, the diachronic study of specific rites, the adaptation of sacred space to different uses through physical, representational, or textual alteration, and the development of ritual landscapes in ancient Thebes

Sacred space --- Rites and ceremonies --- Lieux sacrés --- Rites et cérémonies --- Thebes (Egypt : Extinct city) --- Thèbes (Egypte : Ville ancienne) --- Religion. --- Religion --- Lieux sacrés --- Rites et cérémonies --- Thèbes (Egypte : Ville ancienne) --- Holy places --- Places, Sacred --- Sacred places --- Sacred sites --- Sacred spaces --- Sites, Sacred --- Space, Sacred --- Holy, The --- Religion and geography --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Thebes (Egypt : Ancient city) --- Egypt --- Antiquities --- Établissements religieux --- Thèbes (ville ancienne) --- Égypte

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How do those on the margins of modernity face the challenges of globalization? This book demonstrates that secrecy is one of the means by which a society on the fringe of modernity produces itself as locality. Focusing on initiation rituals, masked performances and modern art, this study shows that rituals and performances long deemed obsolete, serve the insertion of their performers in the world at their own terms. The Jola and Mandinko people of the Casamance region in Senegal have always used their rituals and performances to incorporate the impact of Islam, colonialism, capitalism, and contemporary politics. Their performances of secrecy have accommodated these modern powers and continue to do so today. The performers incorporate the modern and redefine modernity through secretive practices. Their traditions are not modern inventions, but traditional ways of dealing with modernity. This book will interest anthropologists, historians, political scientists and all those studying how globalisation affects peripheral societies. It shows that secrecy, performed as a weapon of the weak, empowers their performers. Secrecy serves to mark boundaries and define the local in the global.

Secrecy --- Rites and ceremonies --- Group identity --- Ethnology --- Globalization. --- Concealment --- Privacy --- Hiding places --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Casamance (Senegal) --- Casamance, Senegal --- Région de Casamance (Senegal) --- Kolda (Senegal : Region) --- Ziguinchor (Senegal : Region) --- Social life and customs. --- Religious life and customs. --- Culture and globalization. --- Globalization and culture --- Globalization

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Towards Liturgies that Reconcile reflects upon Christian worship as it is shaped, and mis-shaped, by human prejudice, specifically by racism. African Americans and European Americans have lived together for 400 years on the continent of North America, but they have done so as slave and master, outsider and insider, oppressed and oppressor. Scott Haldeman traces the development of Protestant worship among whites and blacks, showing that the following exist in tension: African American and European American Protestant liturgical traditions are both interdependent and distinct; and that multicult

Liturgies --- Worship. --- Race relations --- Church and race problems --- Church and race relations --- Cult --- Cultus --- Religion --- Theology, Practical --- Fire-worshipers --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Liturgics --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Worship --- 241.4 --- 241.65*6 --- 264 <73> --- 323.13 <73> --- 241.65*6 Theologische ethiek: gelijkberechtiging; emancipatie --- Theologische ethiek: gelijkberechtiging; emancipatie --- 241.4 Theologische ethiek: schuld; zonde; bekering; verzoening --- Theologische ethiek: schuld; zonde; bekering; verzoening --- Integration, Racial --- Race problems --- Race question --- Relations, Race --- Ethnology --- Social problems --- Sociology --- Ethnic relations --- Minorities --- Racism --- 264 <73> Liturgie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Liturgie--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 323.13 <73> Bewegingen ten gunste van bepaalde rassen--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Bewegingen ten gunste van bepaalde rassen--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Christianity