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Marcia S Calkowski

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ID119646
NAMEMarcia S Calkowski
GIVEN NAMESMarcia S
FAMILY NAMECalkowski
SIGNATURECALKOWSKI M S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Lethbridge
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS9
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1
  • Is There Authoritative Voice in Ewok Talk: On Postmodernism, Fieldwork, and the Recovery of Unintended Meanings

    Marcia S Calkowski, Marcia Calkowski•ARTICLE•Culture•2021•References: 11

    Postmodernism emphasizes perspectivism, celebrates indeterminacy, and abjures the authoritative voice. Understanding is to be gained dialogically and achieved through participation and performance, activities often synonymous with anthropological fieldwork. However, fieldwork entails the recovery of unintended as well as intended meanings which are, in turn, invariably situated in a hermeneutical hierarchy. This paper points up the inevitability …

  • Malik, Aditya: Tales of Justice and Rituals of Divine Embodiment - Oral Narratives from the Central Himalayas

    Marcia S Calkowski, Marcia Calkowski•ARTICLE•Anthropos•2017

    Anthropos , Seite 688 - 689

  • Everyday Arias: An Operatic Ethnography by Paul Atkinson

    Open Access•Marcia S Calkowski, Marcia Calkowski•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•2009

  • Single Reviews

    Open Access•Marcia S Calkowski•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•2007

    Book reviewed in this article: The Weight of the Past: Living with History in Mahajanga, Madagascar . Michael J. Lambek

  • A day at the Tibetan opera: Actualized Performance and Spectacular Discourse

    Open Access•Marcia S Calkowski, Marcia Calkowski•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•1991•Cited by: 9•References: 18

    Recent studies of performance genres suggest that many rituals generate proposi-tional force by manipulating ritual frames and so drawing the audience to reflect upon various levels of performance reality. This article focuses on the fusion of such levels during the performance of a Tibetan opera before an audience of refugee Tibetans living in India, a spectacle wherein the mimetic performance of a mock exorcism became an actual exorcism. The ar…

  • A day at the Tibetan opera: Actualized Performance and Spectacular Discourse

    Open Access•Marcia S Calkowski, Marcia Calkowski•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•1991•Cited by: 9•References: 18

    Recent studies of performance genres suggest that many rituals generate proposi-tional force by manipulating ritual frames and so drawing the audience to reflect upon various levels of performance reality. This article focuses on the fusion of such levels during the performance of a Tibetan opera before an audience of refugee Tibetans living in India, a spectacle wherein the mimetic performance of a mock exorcism became an actual exorcism. The ar…

  • A day at the Tibetan opera: Actualized Performance and Spectacular Discourse

    Open Access•Marcia S Calkowski, Marcia Calkowski•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•1991•Cited by: 9•References: 18

    Recent studies of performance genres suggest that many rituals generate proposi-tional force by manipulating ritual frames and so drawing the audience to reflect upon various levels of performance reality. This article focuses on the fusion of such levels during the performance of a Tibetan opera before an audience of refugee Tibetans living in India, a spectacle wherein the mimetic performance of a mock exorcism became an actual exorcism. The ar…

  • Single Reviews

    Open Access•Marcia S Calkowski•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•2007

    Book reviewed in this article: The Weight of the Past: Living with History in Mahajanga, Madagascar . Michael J. Lambek

  • Everyday Arias: An Operatic Ethnography by Paul Atkinson

    Open Access•Marcia S Calkowski, Marcia Calkowski•ARTICLE•American Ethnologist•2009

  • Malik, Aditya: Tales of Justice and Rituals of Divine Embodiment - Oral Narratives from the Central Himalayas

    Marcia S Calkowski, Marcia Calkowski•ARTICLE•Anthropos•2017

    Anthropos , Seite 688 - 689

  • Is There Authoritative Voice in Ewok Talk: On Postmodernism, Fieldwork, and the Recovery of Unintended Meanings

    Marcia S Calkowski, Marcia Calkowski•ARTICLE•Culture•2021•References: 11

    Postmodernism emphasizes perspectivism, celebrates indeterminacy, and abjures the authoritative voice. Understanding is to be gained dialogically and achieved through participation and performance, activities often synonymous with anthropological fieldwork. However, fieldwork entails the recovery of unintended as well as intended meanings which are, in turn, invariably situated in a hermeneutical hierarchy. This paper points up the inevitability …

Art (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works)

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