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ARREST FOR ATTEMPTED STREET THEATRE
Author(s) -
Power Camilla,
Knight Chris
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
anthropology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.419
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-8322
pISSN - 0268-540X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8322.2012.00852.x
Subject(s) - laughter , power (physics) , government (linguistics) , perspective (graphical) , media studies , history , sociology , art , visual arts , literature , philosophy , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics
On the eve of the royal wedding, two anthropologists and an actor – members of a street theatre troupe known as ‘The Government of the Dead’– were arrested for conspiracy to stage a performance. We adopt a Bakhtinian perspective of carnival laughter as essential to the scientific investigation of officialdom and ceremonial power.