On America: Performance Research 3:1 (Performance Research)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Contents......Page 3
Performance Research......Page 4
Copyright......Page 6
Editorial Statement......Page 7
Preface......Page 8
Editorial......Page 9
On Origins: Behind the Rituals......Page 11
IN THE BEGINNING…......Page 13
CONCLUSION......Page 20
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 21
FROM SIBERIA WITH POWER......Page 22
CORE SHAMANS......Page 23
WHITE INDIANS......Page 24
CYBERIAN TECHNO-SHAMANISM......Page 25
PAGAN ECO-SHAMANS......Page 26
CONCLUSION......Page 27
REFERENCES......Page 28
INTRODUCTION......Page 30
THE ORIGIN OF SACRIFICE IN THE AZTEC MYTHS......Page 31
RITUAL SACRIFICES DURING FESTIVALS......Page 32
ARCHAEOLOGY OF RITUAL SACRIFICE......Page 33
REFERENCES......Page 34
Friday 5 January 1996......Page 37
2 RITUALS OF SADOMASOCHISM......Page 38
3 ‘VISITING HOURS’......Page 39
4 POST-HUMAN......Page 42
‘Wild Man behaviour’......Page 44
Sar......Page 45
FUNCTION AND OPPOSITION......Page 46
BUTTERFLIES AND SERPENTS: THE MEDICALIZATION OF WOMAN......Page 47
OVERDOSES......Page 48
MENTAL ILLNESS AS THEATRE: PSYCHOPOLITICS, OPPOSITION AND INVERSION......Page 49
STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND ACTION......Page 50
REFERENCES......Page 51
CARIBBEAN RITUAL THEATRE......Page 53
POSSESSION AS PERFORMANCE......Page 55
TOWARDS A THEORY OF CARIBBEAN RITUAL THEATRE......Page 57
REFERENCES......Page 58
A Sense of Wonder......Page 60
RITUALIZATION AMONG ANIMALS AND THE PALAEONTOLOGY OF HUMAN RITUALISM......Page 65
RITUALS IN TIMES OF CRISIS......Page 66
REVIVAL OF RITUALISM AND THE FIN-DE-MILLENIUM ZEITGEIST......Page 67
REFERENCES......Page 70
The Camera as Catalyst: Photography as a Form of Ritual Theatre......Page 72
REQUESTING FROM THE LOCAL SPIRITS PERMISSION TO USE THE SITE......Page 77
ESTABLISHING THE CIRCLE OF PROTECTION......Page 78
ASKING FOR THE BLESSING OF , GODDESS OF THE EARTH......Page 79
LAYING DOWN THE COLOURED POWDERS......Page 80
TECHNIQUES OF THE BODY......Page 83
ART AS VEHICLE......Page 85
THE PARADOX OF CATEGORIZATION......Page 86
THE MATTER OF GENERATIONS......Page 88
REFERENCES......Page 90
The Performance of Pain......Page 93
REFERENCES......Page 97
THEATRE, PERFORMANCE, POETRY......Page 100
I DREAMT JUST ONE DREAM: THE CIPÓ AND I......Page 101
CELEBRATION OF UNITY: NATURE AND CULTURE, BODY AND SOUL, I AND THE OTHER......Page 104
REFERENCES......Page 107
The Future of Ritual (the final chapter)......Page 113
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy......Page 115
Anthropocosmic Theatre: Rite in the Dynamics of Theatre......Page 117
Masked Performance: The Play of Self and Other in Ritual and Trance......Page 118
The Shamans of PreHistory: Trance and Magic in the Painted Caves......Page 119
Adults in Wonderland......Page 121
First We Take Manhattan: Four American Women and the New York School of Dance Criticism......Page 122
OTTO MUEHL......Page 125
GÜNTER BRUS......Page 126
REFERENCES......Page 127
IMPORTANT ADDRESSES......Page 128
Performance Research: On Ritual......Page 130