Anthropology and Performance
Code
722001053
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Antropologia
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
LO1. Knowing, questioning and using the main themes and paradigms associated with the Anthropology and Performance;
LO2. To develop critical thinking on the evaluation of situations, processes and social actors in Anthropology and Performance, through expository sessions, viewing of films and critical reading of bibliography
LO3. To enable the students to work individually or in teams, and to communicate both orally and in writing.
LO4. To objectify knowledge through participation in field work
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
P1. The anthropology of performance: Constitution of a subject field. Theoretical and methodological issues.
P2. Act, perform, display: agency as action. Societies and the role of fantasy. Between past and history in a time of presentism. Memory and performance: the know-how. Transition from numinous to commodification.
P3. Performative realities. Work and fantasy: hidden and public transcript. Performance at daily life: social interactions as performances. \"Traditional\" or contemporary festivals? Rites of passage. Artists as performers. Politics and their performances.
P4. Agents and performances. Agents or actors? Communities and collectives. \"Popular culture\" and \"mass culture\". Case Studies.
Bibliography
BOISSEVAIN, Jeremy, ed. (1992) Revitalizing European Rituals, London, Routledge.
DEBORD, Guy (2006) A sociedade do espectáculo, Cascais, Edições Antipáticas.
GODINHO, Paula (2010) Festas de Inverno no Nordeste de Portugal Património, mercantilização e aporias da «cultura popular», Castro Verde, 100Luz.
GOFFMAN, Erving (1993) A apresentação do eu na vida de todos os dias, Lisboa, Relógio d´Água.
RAPOSO, Paulo (2010) Por Detrás da Máscara Ensaio de Antropologia da Performance sobre os Caretos
de Podence, Lisboa, IMC.
HOBSBAWM, Eric; RANGER, Terence (1983) The invention of tradition, Cambridge, CUP.
MANNING, Frank E., ed. (1983) The Celebration of Society - Perspectives on Contempora ry Cultural Performance, Bowling Green, Bowling Green University Popular Press.
SCHECHNER, Richard (2005) Performance Theory (edição ampliada de \"Essays on Performance Theory\", 1977, 1988), Routledge, NY & London.
TURNER, Victor (1986) The Anthropology of Performance, New York, PAJ Publications
Teaching method
The course is divided into theoretical and theoretical-practical lectures (by the professor and guests), seminars and film exhibitions During the course, students must develop several skills and competences based on Learning Objectives.
Different teaching-learning methodologies will be used to achieve those objectives.
Methodologies of teaching-learning:
1. Expository, to present the theoretical frames of reference
2. Participatory ,with collective seminar debates
3. Active, with individual and team presentations
4. Self-Learning - autonomous work
Evaluation method
Evaluation: presentation of a text (25%), attendance and participation (15%) and a written test (60%).