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

by Corinne A. Kratz

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"