TY - BOOK ID - 8779955 TI - The ends of performance AU - Phelan, Peggy AU - Lane, Jill PY - 1998 SN - 0814766471 0814766463 9780814766460 9780814766477 PB - New York New York University Press DB - UniCat KW - Arts. KW - Semiotics and the arts. KW - Theater KW - Anthropological aspects. KW - Semiotics KW - Ethnology. Cultural anthropology KW - Theatrical science KW - performance art KW - Arts KW - Semiotics and the arts KW - #SBIB:316.7C200 KW - #SBIB:39A5 KW - Arts and semiotics KW - Arts, Fine KW - Arts, Occidental KW - Arts, Western KW - Fine arts KW - Humanities KW - Theater anthropology KW - Anthropology KW - Anthropological aspects KW - Sociologie van de cultuuruitingen: algemeen KW - Kunst, habitat, materiƫle cultuur en ontspanning KW - Arts, Primitive KW - Performance-art UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8779955 AB - Bridging the gap between cultural studies, performing arts, and anthropology, performance studies explores myriad ways in which performance creates meaning and shapes our everyday lives. The broadest and most inclusive volume to date, The Ends of Performance both celebrates and critiques the institutionalization of the field. Only recently has the field given keen attention to the interpretive force and consequences of performance events, and it is these consequences that The Ends of Performance articulates. Here performance studies illuminates the complex social and cultural formations of our time - the impact of virtual technology, the racialized discourses of legal and cultural citizenship, the impact of new medical discourses, and the medicalization of the body. Featuring work by leading theorists, excursions into performative writing and texts by performance artists, The Ends of Performance illuminates the provocative intellectual ends which motivate these varied approaches to performing writing, and to writing performance. ER -