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| Contributors | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is performance studies? | |
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| Performance studies: the broad spectrum approach | |
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| Disciplines of the text: sites of performance | |
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| The liminal-norm | |
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| Professing performances: disciplinary genealogies | |
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| Performance studies | |
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| Performance studies in an age of terror | |
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| What is performance? | |
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| Performances: belief in the part one is playing | |
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| Blurred genres: the refiguration of social thought | |
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| What is performance? | |
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| Life the movie | |
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| Marina Abramovic: witnessing shadows | |
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| Ritual | |
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| Liminality and communitas | |
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| "Performance" and other analogies | |
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| "The blood that runs through the veins": the creation of identity and a client's experience of Cuban-American Santeria Dilogun divination | |
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| Saint Orlan: ritual as violent spectacle and cultural criticism | |
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| Performative commemoratives, the personal, and the public: spontaneous shrines, emergent ritual | |
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| Play | |
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| The nature and significance of play as a cultural phenomenon | |
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| A theory of play and fantasy | |
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| The ambiguity of play: rhetorics of fate | |
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| Just doing | |
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| Falling apart to stay together: deep play in the Grand Marais Mardi Gras | |
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| Performativity | |
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| How to do things with-words: lecture II | |
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| Excerpt from "Signature Event Context" | |
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| Performative acts and gender constitution: an essay in phenomenonology and feminist theory | |
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| Introduction to Performativity and Performance | |
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| Theater and anthropology, theatricality and culture | |
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| Performing | |
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| A dialogue about acting | |
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| The actor's technique | |
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| A dream of passion | |
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| Presenting and re-presenting the self: from not-acting to acting in African performance | |
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| Reconsidering Stanislavsky: feeling, feminism, and the actor | |
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| Performance processes | |
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| First attempts at a stylized theatre | |
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| The oral artist: training and preparation | |
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| The performance text | |
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| The deep order called turbulence: the three faces of dramaturgy | |
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| The archaeology of performance | |
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| Global and intercultural performances | |
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| Performing ethnography | |
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| Of mimicry and man | |
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| Culturas-in-extremis: performing against the cultural backdrop of the mainstream bizarre | |
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| Reverend Billy: preaching, protest, and post-industrial flanerie | |
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| Performance studies: interventions and radical research | |
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| Translating performance | |
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| Index | |