Aesthetics in Performance

Angela Hobart is the coordinating lecturer at Goldsmiths College on Intercultural Therapy and lectures at the British Museum on the Art and Culture of South East Asia.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Aesthetics of Symbolic Construction and ExperienceBruce Kapferer and Angela HobartChapter 1. Making Grown Men WeepWilliam O. BeemanChapter 2. The Buzz of God and the Click of DelightDavid ShulmanChapter 3. Songs of Love, Images of MemorySaskia KersenboomChapter 4. The Hindu Temple and the Aesthetics of the ImaginaryRohan BastinChapter 5. Where Divine Horsemen Ride: Trance Dancing in West AfricaSteven M. FriedsonChapter 6. Sorcery and the Beautiful: A Discourse on the Aesthetics of RitualBruce KapfererChapter 7. Transformation and Aesthetics in Balinese Masked Performances—Rangda and BarongAngela HobartChapter 8. A Concise Reflection on the Brazilian CarnivalRoberto DaMattaChapter 9. Bureaucratic Logic, Bureaucratic Aesthetics: The Opening Event of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day in IsraelDon HandelmanChapter 10. Compassion for Animals, Indifference to Humans: Non- and Misperceptions among Circus Audiences in 1970s BritainYoram S. CarmeliNotes on ContributorsIndex

“There is much to recommend in this volume…a fascinating array of cases …an excellent job [by the editors] of introducing the main issues…many of the essays are accompanied by illustrations and photographs that enhance and exemplify the arguments.”  ·  Eyal Ben-Ari in JRAI