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The field of performance studies embraces performance behaviour of all kinds and in all contexts, from everyday life to high ceremony. This volume investigates a wide range of performance behaviour - dance, ritual, conflict situation, sports, storytelling and display behaviour - in a variety of circumstances and cultures. It considers such issues as the relationship between training and the finished performance; whether performance behaviour is universal or culturally specific; and the relationships between ritual aesthetics, popular entertainment and religion, and sports and theatre and dance. The volume brings together essays from leading anthropologists, artists and performance theorists to provide a definitive introduction to the burgeoning field of performance studies. It will be of value to scholars, teachers and students of anthropology, theatre, folklore, semiotics and performance studies.

Theater and society --- Performing arts --- Rites and ceremonies --- Théâtre et société --- Arts du spectacle --- Rites et cérémonies --- Philosophy --- Philosophie --- Turner, Victor --- Folklore --- Theatrical science --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Theater and society. --- Philosophy. --- Turner, Victor Witter. --- Actors --- Society and theater --- Theater --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Social status --- Social aspects --- Turner, Victor W. --- Turner, V. W. --- Turner, Victor, --- Tėrner, V. --- Тэрнер, В. --- Tėrner, Viktor, --- Тэрнер, Виктор, --- טרנר, ויקטור --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology