[eBook Code] The Anthropology of Performance (eBook Code, 1st)

Acknowledgments to Sources vii

The Anthropology of Performance: An Introduction 1
Frank J. Korom

Part I Performance in Prehistory and Antiquity 9

1 Singing the Rug: Patterned Textiles and the Origins of Indo-European Metrical Poetry 11
Anthony Tuck

2 Performance and Written Literature in Classical Greece: Envisaging Performance from Written Literature and Comparative Contexts 26
Rosalind Thomas

Part II Verbal Genres of Performance 37

3 Playing the Dozens 39
Roger D. Abrahams

4 The La Have Island General Store: Sociability and Verbal Art in a Nova Scotia Community 49
Richard Bauman

5 Proverbs and the Ethnography of Speaking Folklore 61
E. Ojo Arewa and Alan Dundes

6 Gbaya Riddles in Changing Times 73
Philip A. Noss

7 Shadows of Song: Exploring Research and Performance Strategies in Yolngu Women’s Crying-Songs 80
Fiona Magowan

Part III Ritual, Drama, and Public Spectacle 95

8 Prayer as Person: The Performative Force in Navajo Prayer Acts 97
Sam D. Gill

9 Performance and the Cultural Construction of Reality 107
Edward L. Schieffelin

10 “He Should Have Worn a Sari”: A “Failed” Performance of a Central Indian Oral Epic 124
Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger

11 Representing History: Performing the Columbian Exposition 133
Rosemarie K. Bank

12 The Palio of Siena: Performance and Process 150
Alice Pomponio Logan

Part IV Performance and Politics in the Making of Communities 165

13 Poetry and Politics in a Transylvanian Village 167
Gail Kligman

14 The Matter of Talk: Political Performances in Bhatgaon 174
Donald Brenneis

15 Celebrating Cricket: The Symbolic Construction of Caribbean Politics 183
Frank E. Manning

16 Performing the Nation: China’s Children as Little Red Pioneers 199
T.E. Woronov

Part V Tourist Performances and the Global Ecumene 215

17 The Promise of Sonic Translation: Performing the Festive Sacred in Morocco 217
Deborah A. Kapchan

18 Ethnic Tourism in Hokkaidoˆ and the Shaping of Ainu Identity 234
Lisa Hiwasaki

19 What They Came With: Carnival and the Persistence of African Performance Aesthetics in the Diaspora 250
Esiaba Irobi

20 Global Breakdancing and the Intercultural Body 260
Halifu Osumare

Further Readings 273

Index 287