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The field of performance studies embraces performance behaviour of all kinds and in all contexts, from everyday life to high ceremony. This volume investigates a wide range of performance behaviour - dance, ritual, conflict situation, sports, storytelling and display behaviour - in a variety of circumstances and cultures. It considers such issues as the relationship between training and the finished performance; whether performance behaviour is universal or culturally specific; and the relations
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- Author
- Richard Schechner and Willa Appel
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 1990
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521326087
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Sociology, Literary Fiction, Anthropology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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