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Theatrical Performance and the Archaeological Imagination: A Transformational Journey
Author(s) -
Tobin Daniel Bird,
Bird S. Elizabeth
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 1559-9167
DOI - 10.1111/anhu.12215
Subject(s) - storytelling , performing arts , transformational leadership , visual arts , art , aesthetics , history , literature , narrative , psychology , social psychology
Summary What happens when you take archaeological artifacts out of the lab or the museum, and use them to inspire a storytelling performance? How might artifacts inspire theater, and how might theater animate artifacts? Here, in a dialogue between a writer/performer and an anthropologist, we explore these questions, using a recent solo performance piece to think about the possibilities of theater inspired by an “archaeological imagination.”