ALLEGRA, online platform for anthropological matters, has just published the introduction to an exciting special issue of articles on anthropology and political performance by Vita Peacock (UCL), Andrea Grant (Cambridge), Vanessa Farr (reviewing Julie Billaud's Kabul Carnival) and Scott Head (reviewing Alex Flynn's and Jonas Tinius' Anthropology, Theatre, and Development).
"Definitions of ‘performance’ abound. Some of the principal reasons for anthropologists’ continued interest in the subject of performance are the reflexive, relational, and embodied dimensions of performance. Performance is a prism for studying human life. This thematic thread offers to expand our perspective by providing a view into practices of rehearsing, probing, improvising, scores, scripts, choreographies, backstage, frontstage, emergences, entries and exits, frames and scenes. These new anthropological approaches to performance present more than a collection of accounts on one tradition of playful enactment or another."
http://allegralaboratory.net/new-anthropologies-of-political-performance-thematic-thread-on-performance-2/
<http://allegralaboratory.net/new-anthropologies-of-political-performance-thematic-thread-on-performance-2/>
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Jonas Tinius
Division of Social Anthropology | King’s College | University of Cambridge
Co-convenor, Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH)
Now out: Anthropology, Theatre, and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance. <http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/anthropology-theatre-and-development-alex-flynn/?K=9781137350596> Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan. [download the introduction as a free pdf here <http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/anthropology-theatre-and-development-alex-flynn/?K=9781137350596>]
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