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Performance and politics in Tanzania : the nation on stage.
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ISBN: 9780253349057 0253349052 9780253219121 0253219124 Year: 2007 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana university press

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Community mural art in South Africa.
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ISBN: 1868881881 Year: 2002 Publisher: Pretoria University of South Africa

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The performance arts in Africa : a reader
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ISBN: 0415261988 1315013223 1136416897 041526197X 9781136416965 113641696X 9780415261975 9780415261982 9781315013220 9781136416897 9781136417030 Year: 2002 Publisher: London New-York : Routledge,

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This exciting collection of classic writings explores a wide range of types of performance and theatre from all over Africa. It is essential reading for all those interested in performance in rural and urban Africa.

Ghana's concert party theatre.
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ISBN: 025321436X Year: 2001 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana University press

Ritual, performance, media
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ISBN: 0415163382 Year: 1998 Publisher: London Routledge

The Future of Ritual : Writings on Culture and Performance
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ISBN: 0415046890 9786610323401 128032340X 0203359151 1134946937 9780203359150 6610323402 9780415046909 0415046904 0415046904 9781134946938 9781134946884 9781134946921 9780415046893 0203375912 1134946929 Year: 1993 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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In The Future of Ritual, Richard Schechner explores the nature of ritualised behaviour and its relationship to performance and politics. A brilliant and uncontainable examination of cultural expression and communal action, The Future of Ritual asks pertinent questions about art, theatre and the changing meaning of 'culture' in today's intercultural world. An exciting new work by the author of Performance Theory.

The anthropology of performance
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ISBN: 1555540007 1555540015 9781555540012 9781555540005 Year: 1988 Volume: 4 Publisher: New York : Baltimore : PAJ Publications ; Distributed by the Johns Hopkins University Press,

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Turner is all over the globe as he addresses issues of cultural performance, carnival, film, theatre, and "performing ethnography" to break new ground in anthropological thinking about event, spectacle, and audience. One of his last writings, "Body, Brain, and Culture" links cerebral neurology and anthropology studies in a fascinating interface.

Performing Africa : remixing tradition, theatre, and culture.
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ISBN: 9780820488998 0820488992 9786612158544 1400825210 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York Peter Lang

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The jali--a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers--is a charismatic but contradictory figure. He is at once the repository of his people's history, the voice of contemporary political authority, the inspiration for African American dreams of an African homeland, and the chief entertainment for the burgeoning transnational tourist industry. Numerous journalists, scholars, politicians, and culture aficionados have tried to pin him down. This book shows how the jali's talents at performance make him a genius at representation--the ideal figure to tell us about


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Kongo across the waters
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ISBN: 9780813049151 9780813049458 Year: 2013 Publisher: Florida (USA) : University Press of Florida,

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Explores the transatlantic connections between Central Africa and North America over the past 500 years in the visual and performing arts of both cultures.

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