The Anthropology of Performance: A Reader

The Anthropology of Performance
	Contents
	Acknowledgments to Sources
	The Anthropology of Performance: An Introduction
	Part I: Performance in Prehistory and Antiquity
		1 Singing the Rug: Patterned Textiles and the Origins of Indo-European Metrical Poetry
			NOTES
			REFERENCES
		2 Performance and Written Literature in Classical Greece: Envisaging Performance from Written Literature and Comparative Contexts
			Song Culture
			Conclusion
			NOTES
	Part II: Verbal Genres of Performance
		3 Playing the Dozens
			Dozens’ Replies
			NOTES
		4 The La Have Island General Store: Sociability and Verbal Art in a Nova Scotia Community
			APPENDIX
			TEXT A
			Text B
			NOTES
		5 Proverbs and the Ethnography of Speaking Folklore
			Introduction
			Studying Proverbs as Communication
			Some Yoruba Proverbs of Child Training
			Discussion
			Proverbs and Channel
			Conclusion
			APPENDIX
			NOTE
			REFERENCES
		6 Gbaya Riddles in Changing Times
			NOTES
			REFERENCES
		7 Shadows of Song: Exploring Research and Performance Strategies in Yolngu Women’s Crying-Songs
			Arnhem Land Performance Research
			Seeing Musically
			Strategies of Formation and Location
			Conclusion
			NOTES
			REFERENCES
	Part III: Ritual, Drama, and Public Spectacle
		8 Prayer as Person: The Performative Force in Navajo Prayer Acts
			An Outline of Navajo Ceremonialism
			Holyway Ceremonials
			Holyway Prayer
				Name mention
				Offering/smoke
				Imperative to remake
				Removal and dispersion
				Recovery
				Pleasantness regained
			The Prayer as a Pragmatic Act
			“Doctrine of the Infelicities”
			Conclusion
			NOTES
		9 Performance and the Cultural Construction of Reality
			Introduction: Meaning-centered Analyses of Ritual
				Limitations of the meaningcentered approach
			The Kaluli Setting
			The Seance Performance
			Playing the Urgency of the Social Situation
				The seance setting
			The Strategy of the Songs
				Performance unity and integrity
				Performance momentum
				The spirits
				The “audience”
			The Ostensible Work of the Seance
				Dialogic modes of constructing reality
				Dramaturgical means of constructing reality
			Seance Performance and the Construction of Cosmological Context
				Implications for the notion of “belief system”
			Conclusion
			NOTES
			REFERENCES
		10 “He Should Have Worn a Sari”: A “Failed” Performance of a Central Indian Oral Epic
			The Candaini Epic and Its Performance
			The Failed Performance
			Audience Expectation and Performance Language
			Toward New Performance Languages
			NOTES
			REFERENCES
		11 Representing History: Performing the Columbian Exposition
			NOTES
		12 The Palio of Siena: Performance and Process
			Siena
			The Contrada
			Contrada Structure
			Contrada Members
			The Individual and Contrada Life
			Role Reversals
			Space and Time
			After the Palio
			Discussion
			Conclusion
			NOTES
			REFERENCES
	Part IV: Performance and Politics in the Making of Communities
		13 Poetry and Politics in a Transylvanian Village
			NOTES
			REFERENCES
		14 The Matter of Talk: Political Performances in Bhatgaon
			Bhatgaon: A Fiji Indian Community
			Contexts
			Textures
			Texts
			Unconventional Performances
			NOTES
			REFERENCES
		15 Celebrating Cricket: The Symbolic Construction of Caribbean Politics
			Blacks in Whites
				Food, liquor, clothing, and money
				The stock market
				Festival and politics
			Conclusion
			NOTES
			REFERENCES
		16 Performing the Nation: China’s Children as Little Red Pioneers
			Accounting for Nationalism
			Performing the Nation
			The Little Red Pioneers
			Pioneers and the Nation
			Fear of Water: Performance, Reiteration, and “Getting It Wrong”
			NOTES
			REFERENCES
	Part V: Tourist Performances and the Global Ecumene
		17 The Promise of Sonic Translation: Performing the Festive Sacred in Morocco
			The Festive Sacred and the Promise of Sonic Translation
			Learning to Listen the Nation
			The Festive Sacred: Beyond the Nation
			Defining the Sacred
			The Fes Festival of Sacred Music In Situ
			“The Spirit of Fes” and and the Reification of Place
			Attending to Audition
			Sufi Nights, Sacred Tourism
			“Giving Soul to Globalization”
			Conclusion: Sacred Aesthetics and the Festive Sacred
			NOTES
			REFERENCES
		18 Ethnic Tourism in Hokkaidoˆ and the Shaping of Ainu Identity
			Introduction
			Ethnic Tourism and the Commoditisation of Cultures
			Ainu Ethnic Tourism in Hokkaid^
			Tourism and the Ainu
			Tourism, Ainu Cultural Expressions, and Ainu Ethnic Identities
			Towards the Future
			NOTES
		19 What They Came With: Carnival and the Persistence of African Performance Aesthetics in the Diaspora
			Phenomenology and the Theory of Translocation
			Semiological Similarities between African Festivals and Diasporic Carnivals
			Myth in African and African Diasporic Festival/Carnival Performance
			Conclusion: Carnival as an Encyclopedia of Other Literacies
			REFERENCES
		20 Global Breakdancing and the Intercultural Body
			Hip Hop’s Global Proliferation
			Urban Movement in Hawai’i
			Performing Race: Performativity as Complex Embodiment
			Hip Hop’s Two-Pronged Bodily Text
			Hip Hop Postmodernity: Dimensions of Late Capitalism and Cultural Studies
			Conclusions
			NOTES
			REFERENCES
	Further Readings
	Index