Affecting Performance: Meaning, Movement, and Experience in Okiek Women's Initiation

by Corinne A. Kratz

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This reissue of Affecting Performance makes available a major work in performance studies, linguistic anthropology, ritual and symbolic studies, and African studies. A classic study widely used in the classroom, the book examines how ceremonial performance works and the contradictory dynamics of gender and ethnicity in Okiek initiation ceremonies in Kenya.

Combining discourse analysis, semiotics, history, political economy, symbolic...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1604944986

ISBN13:9781604944983

Release Date:October 2010

Publisher:Wheatmark

Length:518 Pages

Weight:1.66 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

African-American Studies Native American Studies Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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