Experiential and Performative Anthropology in the Classroom

Pamela R. Frese is Professor of Anthropology at the College of Wooster, USA. A graduate student of Victor Turner, she has continued to use ethnographic performance in her teaching. Susan Brownell is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA. As an undergraduate student of Victor Turner, she learned the value of ritual reenactments in education; she traces these foundational experiences through to her current research on sport and ritual.

• Chapter 1: “The Foundations of Experiential Performance Pedagogy”.- Chapter 2 "Points of Contact Between Anthropological and Theatrical Thought”.- Chapter 3: “Performing Ethnography”.- Chapter 4: “Revisiting the Past for the Present:  The Wedding Ritual Performance in the Turners' Seminar”.- Chapter 5: “Structure, Anti-structure, and Communitas in the Classroom:  Notes on Embodied Theory”.- Chapter 6: “Bridges to the Ancestors: Engaging Students with Ethnographic Performances in the Classroom”.- Chapter 7: “The Smell of Smudge and the Work of Smoke:  Reenacting Native American Ritual in an Anthropology Course”.- Chapter 8: “Grotto Water and Potato Chips:  Classroom Ritual Reenactments as Forms of Pedagogical Resistance”.- Chapter 9: “Dance Lessons:  Performance as Engaged Experiential Embodiment”.- Chapter 10: “Pedagogies of the Imagination: Toward a New Performative Politics”.- Chapter 11: “Cultivating Empathy Through a Migration Simulation”.- Chapter 12: “Moving Forward”.

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