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Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook is a lively, accessible overview of the full range of performance, with primary extracts, student activities, key biographies, and over 200 images of global performance. The publication of __Performance Studies: An Introduction__ was a defining moment for the field. This fourth edition has been revised with two new chapters, up-to-date coverage of global and intercultural performances, and an in-depth exploration of the growing international importance of performance studies. Among the book’s topics are the performing arts and popular entertainments, rituals, play and games, social media, the performances of the paleolithic period, and the performances of everyday life. Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the social sciences, performing arts, poststructuralism, ritual theory, ethology, philosophy, and aesthetics. __Performance Studies: An Introduction__ features the broadest and most in-depth analysis possible. __Performance Studies: An Introduction__ is the definitive overview for undergraduates at all levels and beginning graduate students in performance studies, the performing arts, and cultural studies. This new edition is also supported by a fully updated companion website, offering a variety of interactive resources, teaching tools, and research links. Richard Schechner’s pioneering textbook is a lively, accessible overview of the full range of performance, with primary extracts, student activities, key biographies, and over 200 images of global performance. The publication of Performance Studies: An Introduction was a defining moment for the field. This fourth edition has been revised with two new chapters, up-to-date coverage of global and intercultural performances, and an in-depth exploration of the growing international importance of performance studies. Among the book’s topics are the performing arts and popular entertainments, rituals, play and games, social media, the performances of the paleolithic period, and the performances of everyday life. Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the social sciences, performing arts, poststructuralism, ritual theory, ethology, philosophy, and aesthetics. Performance Studies: An Introduction features the broadest and most in-depth analysis possible. Performance Studies: An Introduction is the definitive overview for undergraduates at all levels and beginning graduate students in performance studies, the performing arts, and cultural studies. This new edition is also supported by a fully updated companion website, offering a variety of interactive resources, teaching tools, and research links. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 6 Copyright Page 7 Dedication Page 8 CONTENTS 10 Preface 12 Acknowledgements 14 Margin icons 15 1 WHAT IS PERFORMANCE? 16 Introducing this book, this field, and me 16 The boxes 16 Defining performance 18 The nine kinds of performances 22 Restored behavior 25 Caution, beware of generalizations 26 As/is performance 27 Make believe/make belief 31 Blurry boundaries 32 The seven functions of performance 33 As/is and the broad spectrum, again 37 Conclusions 39 2 WHAT IS PERFORMANCE STUDIES? 41 Confounding categories, blurring boundaries 41 Performance studies here, there, and everywhere 43 Antecedents to performance studies 46 The Victor Turner connection 49 Ethical and political questions 50 Conclusions 52 3 PERFORMANCE PROCESSES 53 The performing arts as a model 53 Performance process as a time-space sequence 53 Rules, proto-performance, and public performance 74 The performance quadrilogue 75 From montage to virtual reality 81 Experimental in one context, ordinary in another 87 Conclusions 88 4 THE BROAD SPECTRUM OF PERFORMANCE 91 From nonmatrixed performing to complex acting 95 Realistic performing 97 Brechtian performing 101 Codified performing 104 Codified performing and the avantgarde 111 Ritualists, charisma, and presence 113 Puppets and masks 114 Hybrid performing 117 Performing in everyday life 119 Trials and executions as performance 124 Surgery as performance 129 Belief in the role one is playing 130 How realistic is realistic acting? 133 Conclusions 135 5 RITUAL 136 Sacred and secular 137 Human and animal rituals 142 Trance 148 Trance and shamanism 154 Rites of passage, liminal, liminoid 159 Communitas and anti-structure 164 Ritual time and space 165 Transportations and transformations 165 Asemo’s initiation 167 Social drama and ritual process 168 The pig-kill at Kurumugl 171 The efficacy-entertainment dyad 173 Origin of performance: if not ritual, what? 174 Changing rituals or inventing new ones 175 Using rituals in theatre, dance, and music 177 Conclusions 180 6 PLAY 181 The joker in the deck 181 What is play? What is playing? 183 Play and games 184 Seven ways to approach play 185 Types of playing 186 Play acts, play moods 187 Flow, or experiencing playing 189 Transitional objects, illusions, and culture 191 Animal play 192 The message, “this is play” 195 Bateson’s Othello 197 Blood games, blood rites 198 Philosophies of play 201 The bias against play 207 Maya–lila 208 Deep play, dark play 214 Conclusions 217 7 PERFORMING IN THE PALEOLITHIC 218 What is the paleolithic? 219 Where is the art, and how old is it? 220 Is it art? 225 What was the cave art for? 227 Vulvas, “venuses,” hybrids, women artists 230 Performing in the caves 234 Shamanic vision-quests 239 Paleoperformance 241 Lascaux online and replicated onsite 244 Conclusions 245 8 PERFORMATIVITY 246 A term hard to pin down 246 Austin’s performative 246 Speech acts 249 From Survivor to EarthCam 250 Postmodernism 253 Simulation 257 Poststructuralism/deconstruction 266 The diffusion of poststructuralism 270 Problems with poststructuralism 272 Constructions of gender 274 Constructions of race 277 Performance art 282 What the Gravedigger knew about the performative 288 Conclusions 288 9 SOCIAL MEDIA 290 Up, up, and away 290 When and what? 295 The network society 296 Performing you on social media 300 Second self or augmented self? 302 The importance of interests 303 From Goffman to web 2.0 304 Big business, fake news, war 306 POTUS @realDonaldTrump 311 Change by means of social media 314 Social media and the arts 316 Conclusions 318 10 INTERCULTURAL AND GLOBAL PERFORMANCES 320 Globalization’s throughline 320 Intercultural performances 327 Vertical performances 328 Horizontal performances 331 Fusions and hybrids 334 Colonial mimicry and importing 339 Applied performances 344 Terrorist acts as applied global performances 350 Tourist performances: leisure globalization 355 Border wars 359 The Olympics: globalism’s signature performance 362 Conclusions 367 Bibliography 369 Index 387 Defining,performance;,Restored,behavior;,Hybrid,performing Defining performance,Restored behavior,Hybrid performing Performance Studies' includes discussion of the performing arts and popular entertainments, rituals, play and games as well as the performances of every day life. Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the arts, anthropology, ritual theory, ethology, philosophy and aesthetics This fourth edition of Richard Schechner's pioneering textbook has been revised with two new chapters, up-to-date coverage of global and intercultural performances, and an in-depth exploration of the growing international importance of Performance Studies.