Rite, drama, festival, spectacle : rehearsals toward a theory of cultural performance, edited by John J. MacAloon

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Note: Papers from the 76th Burg Wartenstein Symposium, sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research

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Contents: Social dramas & stage dramas -- Liminality and the performative genres / Victor Turner -- Charivari, honor, and community in seventeenth-century Lyon and Geneva / Natalie Zemon Davis -- "Rough music" in The duchess of Malfi: Webster's dance of madmen and the Charivari tradition / Frank W. Wadsworth -- Text & performances -- Borges's "Immortal": metaritual, metaliterature, metaperformance / Sophia S. Morgan -- Arrange me into disorder: fragments and reflections on ritual clowning / Barbara A. Babcock -- The diviner and the detective / Hilda Kuper -- A death in due time: construction of self and culture in ritual drama / Barbara G. Myerhoff -- The ritual process and the problem of reflexivity in Sinhalese demon exorcisms / Bruce Kapferer -- Carnival in multiple planes / Roberto Da Matta -- Olympic Games and the theory of spectacle in modern societies / John J. MacAloon

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