In The Future of Ritual, Richard Schechner explores the nature of ritualised behaviour and its relationship to performance and politics. A brilliant and uncontainable examination of cultural expression and communal action, The Future of Ritual asks pertinent questions about art, theatre and the changing meaning of 'culture' in today's intercultural world. An exciting new work by the author of Performance Theory.
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Schechner has given us all the tools we need to appreciate the deeper social significance of what is taking place in front of our eyes instead of accepting it for what it seems to be.
–Colin Turnbull, New York Times
–Colin Turnbull, New York Times
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Richard Schechner is University Professor at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and editor of The Drama Review. His previous publications include Performance Theory, Between Theatre and Anthropology, The End of Humanism, and Theatres, Spaces and Environments.
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The best way to ... understand, enliven, investigate, get in touch with, outwit, contend with, defend oneself against, love ... others, other cultures, the elusive and intimate "I-thou," the other in oneself, the other opposed to oneself, the feared, hated, envied, different other ... is to perform and to study performances and performative behaviours in all their various genres, contexts, expressions, and historical processes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tiananmen Square, Mardi Gras, Ramnagar Ramlila, Konti Vo'o, New York, Spring Break, Kohtumbre Ya'ura, Richard Schechner, Ann Arbor, Loria Vo'o, Pascua Pueblo, Holy Saturday, New Orleans, Clara van Groenendael, Eastern Europe, Holy Week, Palm Sunday, East Germans, Soldiers of Rome, African Americans, Brandenburg Gate, King Zulu, Bharat Milap, Pascua Tribal Council, Ramlila of Ramnagar New!
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The best way to ... understand, enliven, investigate, get in touch with, outwit, contend with, defend oneself against, love ... others, other cultures, the elusive and intimate "I-thou," the other in oneself, the other opposed to oneself, the feared, hated, envied, different other ... is to perform and to study performances and performative behaviours in all their various genres, contexts, expressions, and historical processes. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tiananmen Square, Mardi Gras, Ramnagar Ramlila, Konti Vo'o, New York, Spring Break, Kohtumbre Ya'ura, Richard Schechner, Ann Arbor, Loria Vo'o, Pascua Pueblo, Holy Saturday, New Orleans, Clara van Groenendael, Eastern Europe, Holy Week, Palm Sunday, East Germans, Soldiers of Rome, African Americans, Brandenburg Gate, King Zulu, Bharat Milap, Pascua Tribal Council, Ramlila of Ramnagar New!
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- Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a 5 Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial by Abbie Hoffman on page 63, page 91, and Back Matter
- Tiananmen Square by Scott Simmie on page 63, page 67, and page 85
- Mardi Gras . . . As It Was by Robert Tallant on page 75, page 77, and Back Matter
- Woodstock Nation by Abbie Hoffman on page 91, page 92, and Back Matter
- Totem and Taboo (Great Minds Series) by Sigmund Freud on page 235, and Back Matter
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- Actors and Activists: Performance, Politics, and Exchange Among Social Worlds by David A. Schlossman on 7 pages
- The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance (Routledge Companions) by Paul Allain on 6 pages
- Not the Other Avant-Garde: The Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance) by James M. Harding on 5 pages
- Performance Studies (Readers in Cultural Criticism) by Erin Striff on 5 pages
- Beyond Ritual: Sacramental Theology After Habermas by Siobhan Garrigan on 4 pages
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