Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance

Lauren Miller is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Texas Tech University.David Syring is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

• Introduction: Performance as Anthropological Focus and Framework, Lauren Miller Griffith and David Syring; ; Part I: Histories, Theories, and Frameworks; 1. Body and Mind: The Making of the Anthropology of Performance, Anya Royce ; 2. In the Spirit of Experience, Reflexivity and Growth: Exploring the Ancestral Roots of Performance Anthropology, Pam Frese; 3. Performance & Aesthetics: Experiencing Expressive Events and Visual Arts, Helena Wulff; ; 4. Ritual as Performance, Bradd Shore; 5. Sport as Performance, Claire Conceison; 6. Weaving, Cloth, and Costumes as Vital Contributors to Performance, Andrea Heckman; 7. Ethnographic Comportment: A Performance-Based Framework for Research Design, Kwame Harrison; ; Part II: Performing as a Way of Knowing; ; 8. Anthropology and Laboratory Theatre: Opening Anthropological Orthopraxy to Different Ways of Knowing/Being, Caroline Gatt; 9. Miraculous Stories and the Re-enchantment of the World: Oral Hagiographies of Guru Bawa, Frank Korom; 10. Who’s Performing When the God Dancer Dances? Possession and Ritual Performance in South India, Sara Dickey; 11. Two Handed Ethnography: A Method for Performance Anthropology, Sara Delamont & Neil Stephens; 12. Traveling through Space-time in the Manaus Boi-bumbá, Marnie K Watson; 13. Construction with Varied Materials: Adventures in Global Performativity and Interconnection, Andrew Irving; ; Part III: Performance & Identity; 14. Propia de Saraguro: Performance in an Indigenous Andean Community Creating 21st Century Vitality, David Syring; 15. Music, Identity, and Performance in East Africa, Mwenda Ntarangi; 16. Embodied Cultural Knowledge in Practice: An Ethio-Modern Dance Case Study of የቡና ዓለም YeBuna Alem/A Coffee World, Ras Mikey Courtney; 17. Performed Identity: A Case Study in Irish Dance, Breandán de Gallaí; 18. Performing Women in Classic European Circuses, Julia Offen; 19. Performance in Practice: "American" Karate in the Heartland, Noah Johnson; ; 20. (Accidentally) Doing Whiteness: The Meanings of Performance in a Rural U.S. Music Scene, David Flood ; ; Part IV:: Performance and/as Cultural Critique; 21. Performance and Indigeneity: ‘Playing Indian’ in the Theater of Darkness, Bernard C. Perley; ; 22. On Trial: Law and the Performativity of True Stories, Laurie Frederik ; ; 23. Beyond the Stage: Anarcho-punks Performing Resistance in Bandung, Indonesia, Steve Moog; 24. On Carnivals and Capitalism: Performing Neoliberal Politics in Santiago, Dominican Republic, Sydney Hutchinson; 25. Egyptian Belly Dance IS Feeling: Intersubjectivity, Ṭarab, and Cross-Cultural Performance, Meg Morley; 26. #Capoeiristas for Black Lives: The Complementarity of Virtual and Embodied Performance Communities, Lauren Griffith ; ; Part V: The Future of Performance Anthropology; 27. Craftwork in Ethnographic Theater Making, Debra Vidali; 28. Performing the Past and the Present with an Eye to the Future: Optimizing the Potential of Land Acknowledgment Rituals to Help Ensure they Do No Harm, EJ Sobo, Valerie Lambert, and Michael Lambert; 29. Performance, Play and Resistance: Teaching and Learning at the Happiest Place on Earth, Stephanie Takaragawa; 30. A Sense-Able Partner, Andrea Conger; 31. Beyond the Aesthetically Neutral Body: Performing Disability Futures, Cassandra Hartblay; ; Appendix: Tools, Exercises, and Activities for the Anthropology of Performance; A Zone Approach to Studying the Social Implications of Performance; Lauren Miller Griffith and Evangeline Jiménez ; David Syring; Tuning in to Matizada: Attending to Micro-moments of Aesthetic Enculturation; Debra Vidali; Circle Warm Up ; Energizing Groups with Movement; Pass the Sound and Gesture; Name Passion; The Human Barometer; Human Statue Creation and Inquiry; Ras Mikey Cortney, Transmitting Embodied Knowledge of Traditional Ethiopian Dance; Andrea M. Heckman, Weaving, Cloth and Costumes as Vital Aspects of Performance ; Noah Johnson, Clothed in Practicalities; Andrea Conger, Voice-over Interviews; Cassandra Hartblay, Transposing Transcription Practice; Caroline Gatt, Defamiliarizing Reading; Helena Wulff, Writing Performance ; Julia Offen, Creative Ethnographic Prose: Guided Setting Exercise;