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Bauman, Richard. 1975. Verbal art as performance. American Anthropologist 77 (2) : 290–311.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

performance2 | social context | text | verbal art

Annotation

Instead of focusing on texts in the study of verbal art, B. proposes to approach verbal art as performance. The patterning of performance in genres, acts, roles and events, and the emergent quality of performance, manifested in text, event and social structure, are discussed.