Between Theater and Anthropology

by Richard Schechner

Book Overview

In performances by Euro-Americans, Afro-Americans, Native Americans, and Asians, Richard Schechner has examined carefully the details of performative behavior and has developed models of the performance process useful not only to persons in the arts but to anthropologists, play theorists, and others fascinated (but perhaps terrified) by the multichannel realities of the postmodern world.

Schechner argues that in failing to see the structure...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812212258
• ISBN13: 9780812212259
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"