Ritual and Event

<p>Ritual today can be encountered in the midst of catastrophic and transforming events. This collection reassesses and revises traditionally understood relationships between ritual and politics, ritual and everyday life, ritual and art making, and ritual and disaster. The methodologies as well as the subject matter are interdisciplinary: they range from the anthropological to the art and dance historical, from the theatrical and literary to the linguistic, philosophical, and psychoanalytic. It will be a valuable tool for scholars of Theater and Performance Studies, as well as Anthropology, Art, and History.</p> <p>Introduction: Eventful Knowledge and the Post-Ritual Turn <em>Mark Franko</em> <strong>Part I. Critical Historiographies/New Formations</strong> 1. Going Back to Bateson: Towards a Semiotics of (Post-) Ritual Performance <em>Sally A. Ness</em> 2. Performative Interventions: African Community Theatre in the Age of AIDS <em>Ola Johansson</em> 3. Ritually Failing: Turner’s Theatrical <em>Communitas</em> <em>Andrew Wegley</em> 4. Situation and Event: The Destinations of Sense <em>Tyrus Miller</em> <strong>Part II. Case Studies from the Performative and Visual Archive</strong> 5. The Terrorist Event <em>Bill Nichols</em> 6. Gojira vs Godzilla: Catastrophic Allegories <em>Aaron Kerner</em> 7. Given Movement: Dance and the Event <em>Mark Franko</em> 8. Illness as Danced Urban Ritual <em>Janice Ross</em> 9. Post-colonial Torture: Rituals of Viewing at Abu Ghraib <em>Catherine Soussloff </em></p>