Ritual today can be encountered in the midst of catastrophic and transforming events. The essays collected here reassess and revise traditionally understood relationships between ritual and politics, ritual and everyday life, ritual and art making as well as ritual and disaster. The methodologies as well as subject matter are interdisciplinary: they range from the anthropological to the art and dance historical, from the theatrical and literary to the linguistic, philosophical, and psychoanalytic. Although the book is interdisciplinary, the material could be used on graduate courses in a range of areas such as Anthropology, Art, History, Theater, or Performance Studies.
Author(s): Mark Franko
Edition: 1
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 192
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
Contributors......Page 9
Introduction: Eventful Knowledge and the Post-ritual Turn......Page 12
Part I: Critical Historiographies/New Formations......Page 22
1. Going Back to Bateson: Towards a Semiotics of (post-)ritual Performance......Page 24
2. Performative Interventions: African Community Theatre in the Age of Aids......Page 42
3. Ritually Failing: Turner's Theatrical Communities......Page 67
4. Situation and Event: The Destinations of Sense......Page 86
Part II: Case Studies from the Performative and Visual Archives......Page 102
5. The Terrorist Event......Page 104
6. Gojira vs Godzilla: Catastrophic Allegories......Page 120
7. Given Movement: Dance and the Event......Page 136
8. Illness as Danced Urban Ritual......Page 149
9. Post-colonial Tortue: Rituals of Viewing at Abu Ghraib......Page 170
Index......Page 199
