Ritual and Event : Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Paperback)

Introduction: Eventful Knowledge and the Post-Ritual Turn Mark Franko Part I. Critical Historiographies/New Formations 1. Going Back to Bateson: Towards a Semiotics of (Post-) Ritual Performance Sally A. Ness 2. Performative Interventions: African Community Theatre in the age of AIDS Ola Johansson 3. Ritually Failing: Turner’s Theatrical Communitas Andrew Wegley 4. Situation and Event: The Destinations of Sense Tyrus Miller Part II. Case Studies from the Performative and Visual Archive 5. The Terrorist Event Bill Nichols 6. Gojira vs Godzilla: Catastrophic Allegories Aaron Kerner 7. Given Movement: dance and the Event Mark Franko 8. Illness as Danced Urban Ritual Janice Ross 9. Post-colonial Torture: Rituals of Viewing at Abu Ghraib Catherine Soussloff