The Performance Studies Reader Book

	Contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Performance studies: the broad spectrum approach	7
2	Disciplines of the text: sites of performance	10
3	The liminal-norm	26
4	Professing performances: disciplinary genealogies	32
5	Performance studies	43
6	Performances: belief in the part one is playing	59
7	Blurred genres: the refiguration of social thought	64
8	What is performance?	68
9	Life the movie	74
10	Liminality and communitas	79
11	"Performance" and other analogies	88
12	"The blood that runs through the veins": the creation of identity and a client's experience of Cuban-American santeria dilogun divination	97
13	Saint Orlan: ritual as violent spectacle and cultural criticism	108
14	The nature and significance of play as a cultural phenomenon	117
15	A theory of play and fantasy	121
16	The ambiguity of play: rhetorics of fate	132
17	Just doing	139
18	How to do things with words: lecture II	147
19	Performative acts and gender constitution: an essay in phenomenology and feminist theory	154
20	Introduction to Performativity and Performance	167
21	Theater and anthropology, theatricality and culture	175
22	A dialogue about acting	185
23	The actor's technique	189
24	A dream of passion	195
25	Presenting and re-presenting the self: from not-acting to acting in African performance	197
26	First attempts at a stylized theatre	217
27	The oral artist: training and preparation	226
28	The performance text	232
29	The deep order called turbulence: the three faces of dramaturgy	252
30	Performing ethnography	265
31	Of mimicry and man	279
32	Culturas-in-extremis: performing against the cultural backdrop of the mainstream bizarre	287
33	Reverend Billy: preaching, protest and post-industrial flanerie	299
34	Performance studies: interventions and radical research	311
	Index	323