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This module will introduce students to the ethnographic study of cultural performance. Performance is central to the social life of societies, and research into performance is one of the most effective ways of understanding sociocultural dynamics in particular places.
We will introduce ourselves to several theoretical concepts in performance studies, including framing, performativity, remediation, semiotics of performance, and recent extensions and critiques of performance theory.
As part of the module we will also investigate the ways in which film and video have been used both as research tools for documenting and studying performance, as well as being important media of cultural performance themselves.
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