The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance

Introduction: Performance as Anthropological Focus and Framework, Lauren Miller Griffith and David Syring

1. Body and Mind: The Making of the Anthropology of Performance, Anya Peterson Royce

2. In the Spirit of Experience, Reflexivity, and Growth: Exploring the Ancestral Roots of Performance Anthropology, Pam Frese

3. Performance and 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 M. Heckman

7. Ethnographic Comportment: A Performance-Based Framework for Research Design, Anthony Kwame Harrison

8. Anthropology and Laboratory Theater: 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 J. 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 and 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

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 Ntarangwi

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 L. Offen

19. Performance in Practice: "American" Karate in the Heartland, Noah C.G.Johnson

20. (Accidentally) Doing Whiteness: The Meanings of Performance in a Rural U.S. Music Scene, David Flood

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, Margaret L. Morley

26. #Capoeiristas for Black Lives: The Complementarity of Virtual and Embodied Performance Communities, Lauren Miller

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, E.J. Sobo, V.L. Lambert, and M.C. Lambert

29. Performance, Play, and Resistance: Teaching and Learning at the Happiest Place on Earth, Stephanie Takaragawa with Meladnie Rutledge, Ashley Lee, and Javari Hunt

30. A Sense-Able Partner, Andrea Conger

31. Beyond the Aesthetically Neutral Body: Performing Disability Futures, Cassandra Hartblay

• 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 Courtney, 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

Biography

Lauren Miller is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Texas Tech University.

David Syring is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota Duluth.