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Anthropology and the Theory of Drama

Author(s) -

Radmila Nastić

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

etnoantropološki problemi / issues in ethnology and anthropology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2334-8801

pISSN - 0353-1589

DOI - 10.21301/eap.v5i3.12

Subject(s) - drama , honour , dance , variation (astronomy) , literature , anthropology , art , philosophy , sociology , history , archaeology , physics , astrophysics

The paper is an attempt at a systematic account of the history of influences between anthropology and the theory of drama in the twentieth century. The starting point is the definition of drama as a mimesis of the movement towards self-knowledge as rebirth. It is described as a variation of the original spring dance in honour of the regeneration of life represented in the figure of the twice-born Dionysus. Anthropologists whose contribution to the theory of drama has been acknowledged are Jane Harrison, Gilbert Murray, Arnold Van Genep, Joseph Campbell and Victor Turner.

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