Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance

<p><em>The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance</em> provides a cutting-edge comprehensive overview of the foundations epistemologies methodologies key topics and current debates and future directions in the field. It brings together work from the disciplines of anthropology and performance studies as well as adjacent fields. Across 31 chapters a diverse range of international scholars cover topics including:</p><ul> <li>Ritual</li> <li>Theater</li> <li>Storytelling</li> <li>Music</li> <li>Dance</li> <li>Textiles</li> <li>Land Acknowledgments</li> <li>Indigenous Identity</li> <li>Visual Arts</li> <li>Embodiment</li> <li>Cognition</li> <li>Healing</li> <li>Festivals</li> <li>Politics</li> <li>Activism</li> <li>The Law</li> <li>Race and Ethnicity</li> <li>Gender and Sexuality</li> <li>Class</li> <li>Religion Spirituality and Faith</li> <li>Disability</li> <li>Leisure Gaming and Sport</li> </ul><p>In addition the included Appendix offers tools exercises and activities designed by contributors as useful suggestions to readers both within and beyond academic contexts to take the insights of performance anthropology into their work. This is a valuable reference for scholars and upper-level students in anthropology performance studies and related disciplines including religious studies art philosophy history political science gender studies and education.</p>