Description
| Product ID: | 9780933826175 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | From Ritual to Theatre |
| Subtitle: | The Human Seriousness of Play |
| Authors: | Author: Victor Turner |
| Page Count: | 128 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Literary studies: plays & playwrights |
| Description: | Turner looks beyond his routinized discipline to an anthropology of experience . . . We must admire him for this.-Times Literary Supplement How is social action related to aesthetics, and anthropology to theatre? What is the meaning of such concepts as "work," "play, "liminal," and "flow"? In this highly influential book, Turner elaborates on ritual and theatre, persona and individual, role-playing and performing, taking examples from American, European, and African societies for a greater understanding of culture and its symbols. |
| Imprint Name: | Performing Arts Journals |
| Publisher Name: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2001-07-19 |
