ANT 306 - Current Issues in Anthropology - The Anthropology of Performance

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Princeton University

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This course explores performance as event, activity, object of study, and analytical framework. Students will explore the genealogy of performance in the study of culture, while also reading texts in theater and philosophy that assert particular understandings of what performance is, or should be. If humans are, as Victor Turner says, performing creatures, what do we mean by "performing"? What kinds of actions qualify as performances and how do different definitions of performance shift our insights? How does our own culturally situated understanding of performance influence how we perceive the actions and representations of others?

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0.00 - 4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.princeton.edu

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(609) 258-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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