NOW BACK IN PRINT-- Affecting Performance: Meaning, Movement and Experience in Okiek Women's Initiation

[Kratz, Corinne]

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


SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Women's Studies

Paperback

6 x 9 inches

490 pages

Publication Date: October 2010

Suggested Retail Price: $32.95

Author: Corinne A. Kratz

ISBN: 978-1-60494-498-3
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THE BOOK

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 interpretation, and gender studies, Corinne Kratz examines the power of ritual to produce social transformation and explores how children are made into adults through initiation rites. Taking girls' passage into womanhood as her topic, Kratz considers dramatic structure, costume, song, ritual space, and the discourse, rhetoric, and poetics of ceremonial performance.

THE AUTHOR

Corinne A. Kratz is a professor of anthropology and African studies at Emory University. She authored the award-winning book, The Ones That Are Wanted: Communication and the Politics of Representation in a Photographic Exhibition, and recently co-edited Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.




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