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Images and enactments : possible worlds in dramatic performance / edited by Göran Aijmer and Åsa Boholm.

By: Aijmer, Göran L
Contributor(s): Göteborgs Universitet. Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology
Language: English Publisher: Gothenburg : Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology, University of Gothenburg, 1994.Description: vii, 189p. : diagrs., tables ; 21cm.ISBN: 9163020688
Contents:
Contents: From bodily forces to cultural meaning: dramas of mediumistic divination among the Yaka of South-western Zaire / René Devisch; The Naven ritual of the Iatmul and the role of dramatic techniques in the ritual performance / Milan Stanek; Masked performances in the Carnival of Venice / Åsa Boholm; Ritual theatre or theatrical ritual?: genre and traditional African theatre / Kacke Götrick; Cantonese opera in a rural setting: observations on village drama / Virgil K.Y. Ho; Performance as a ritual: the performance practice of the marionette theatre of Southern Taiwan / Robin Ruizendaal;.
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Papers 1st. presented at an IASSA conference held in June 1992 in Gothenburg.

Bibl.: p. 178-189.

Contents: From bodily forces to cultural meaning: dramas of mediumistic divination among the Yaka of South-western Zaire / René Devisch; The Naven ritual of the Iatmul and the role of dramatic techniques in the ritual performance / Milan Stanek; Masked performances in the Carnival of Venice / Åsa Boholm; Ritual theatre or theatrical ritual?: genre and traditional African theatre / Kacke Götrick; Cantonese opera in a rural setting: observations on village drama / Virgil K.Y. Ho; Performance as a ritual: the performance practice of the marionette theatre of Southern Taiwan / Robin Ruizendaal;.