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Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. From plays to official events to grassroots protests, performance, she argues, must be taken seriously as a means of storing and transmitting knowledge. Taylor reveals how the repertoire of embodied memory--conveyed in gestures, the spoken word, movement, dance, song, and other performances--offers alternative perspectives to those derived from the written archive and is particularly useful to a reconsideration of historical processes of transnational contact. The Archive and the Repertoire invites a remapping of the Americas based on traditions of embodied practice. Examining various genres of performance including demonstrations by the children of the disappeared in Argentina, the Peruvian theatre group Yuyachkani, and televised astrological readings by Univision personality Walter Mercado, Taylor explores how the archive and the repertoire work together to make political claims, transmit traumatic memory, and forge a new sense of cultural identity. Through her consideration of performances such as Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña's show Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit, Taylor illuminates how scenarios of discovery and conquest haunt the Americas, trapping even those who attempt to dismantle them. Meditating on events like those of September 11, 2001 and media representations of them, she examines both the crucial role of performance in contemporary culture and her own role as witness to and participant in hemispheric dramas.

Sociology of minorities --- Theatrical science --- America --- #VCV monografie 2005 --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A74 --- #SBIB:316.7C210 --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Etnografie: Amerika --- Cultuursociologie: kunst: algemeen --- Ethnicity --- Memory --- Minorities --- North and south. --- Performance art --- Performing arts --- Postcolonialism and the arts --- Postcolonialism --- Social aspects --- Social conditions. --- Political aspects --- Civilization. --- Ethnic relations. --- Social conditions --- North and south --- Arts, Modern --- Happenings (Art) --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Arts and postcolonialism --- Arts --- Show business --- South and north --- Acculturation --- Culture conflict --- Retention (Psychology) --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Comprehension --- Executive functions (Neuropsychology) --- Mnemonics --- Perseveration (Psychology) --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation --- Americas --- New World --- Western Hemisphere --- Mémoire --- Art de performance --- Arts du spectacle --- Art et histoire --- Société --- Aspect politique --- Mémoire --- Société