Theatre/Archaeology is a provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries. It brings together radical proposals in both archaeological and performance theory to generate a startlingly original and intriguing methodological framework.
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An extremely influential book..
–Julian Thomas, Univesity of Manchester
Fascinating and ground-breaking..
–Elin Diamond, Rutgers University
Together they have a written a wonderfully evocative book, tracing the evolving dialogue between them as they explored what each discipline had to offer the other, leading eventually to the elaboration of the common project they call 'theatre/archaeology'. The book is a fascinating intermingling of different narratives (artistic, intellectual, autobiographical) and discourses (scholarly, polemical, visionary), and it begins at the end, which is of course a new beginning, with the outline of the academic programs that have emerged from their interdisciplinary collaboration.
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–Gay McAuley, University of Sydney
The authors provide brilliant insights into the practice of site-specific performance, and their book makes a major contribution to the discipline of performance studies through its elaboration of concepts such as the deep map, the sensorium, second-order performance as a mode of performance documentation, and more generally, in the seriousness with which it addresses the task of documenting performance. A brilliant and imaginative cross-disciplinary collaboration, Pearson and Shanks have provided analytical concepts and an intellectual framework that can be applied to many different performance genres.
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–Gay McAuley, University of Sydney
–Julian Thomas, Univesity of Manchester
Fascinating and ground-breaking..
–Elin Diamond, Rutgers University
Together they have a written a wonderfully evocative book, tracing the evolving dialogue between them as they explored what each discipline had to offer the other, leading eventually to the elaboration of the common project they call 'theatre/archaeology'. The book is a fascinating intermingling of different narratives (artistic, intellectual, autobiographical) and discourses (scholarly, polemical, visionary), and it begins at the end, which is of course a new beginning, with the outline of the academic programs that have emerged from their interdisciplinary collaboration.
.
–Gay McAuley, University of Sydney
The authors provide brilliant insights into the practice of site-specific performance, and their book makes a major contribution to the discipline of performance studies through its elaboration of concepts such as the deep map, the sensorium, second-order performance as a mode of performance documentation, and more generally, in the seriousness with which it addresses the task of documenting performance. A brilliant and imaginative cross-disciplinary collaboration, Pearson and Shanks have provided analytical concepts and an intellectual framework that can be applied to many different performance genres.
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–Gay McAuley, University of Sydney
About the Author
Mike Pearson is Professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. From 1981-1997 he was Artistic Director of the Welsh theatre company Brith Gof (whose work was featured in Site-Specific Art, (2000)). Michael Shanks is Professor of Classics and Cultural Anthropology at Stanford University. He is one of the world's foremost archaeological thinkers, and author of many works including Experiencing the Past, Classical Archaeology of Greece (1996), and Art and the Greek City State (1999).
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In the first phase of encounter, what we term 'theatre archaeology', archaeology proves stimulating and suggestive of alternative approaches to both performance documentation and theory, encouraging inscriptions of performance, and their interpretation, which might be fragmentary, partial, subjective, discursive. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
theatre archaeology, performative behaviours, archaeological imagination, perfume jar, devised performance, theatre anthropology, archaeological past, landscape archaeology, archaeological project, contemporary past, material past Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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In the first phase of encounter, what we term 'theatre archaeology', archaeology proves stimulating and suggestive of alternative approaches to both performance documentation and theory, encouraging inscriptions of performance, and their interpretation, which might be fragmentary, partial, subjective, discursive. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
theatre archaeology, performative behaviours, archaeological imagination, perfume jar, devised performance, theatre anthropology, archaeological past, landscape archaeology, archaeological project, contemporary past, material past Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Esgair Fraith, Brith Gof, Skara Brae, Dead Men's Shoes, Gordon Childe, Mike Pearson, South Wales, Tintern Abbey, Bernard Tschumi, David Davies, The First Five Miles, John Jones, Walter Benjamin, Saint Fagan, Waldo Williams New!
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- Images of the Street: Planning, Identity and Control in Public Space by Nicholas Fyfe in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past by Alexandra Alexandri in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Landscapes for the Homeless by Anthony Hernandez on page 49, and Back Matter
- Sympotica: A Symposium on the Symposion (Clarendon Paperbacks) by Oswyn Murray in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Social Theory and Archaeology by Michael Shanks in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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