The Turner-Schechner Model of Performance as Social Drama

A Re-Examination in the Light of Anlo-EweHal

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5801882
AutoresDaniel Avorgbedor (autor de correspondencia)
Año1999
Volumen30
Número4
Páginas144-155
Fecha de publicación1999-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaResearch in African Literatures (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044
EditorialIndiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2979/ral.1999.30.4.144
OpenAlexW2047346313
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas17

This essay isolates dramaturgic procedures in Anlo-Ewe haló performance and evaluates them along the hypothetical and theoretical ideas of Victor Turner and Richard Schechner. The procedures are situated in their significant social and aesthetic formulations and along the manner in which they enhance the communication of dramatic impulse. The influence of the social framework, the deliberate framing or staging (with set rules and procedures), and the competitive engagement of rival groups in haló will clarify the notion of "social drama," as propounded in the works of Turner (The Anthropology of Performance; The Drums of Affliction; Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors; and From Ritual to Theatre) and Schechner (Performative Circumstances; Essays on Performance Theory; and Performance Theory). I will begin with a summary of the components of haló

Framing (construction · Performance studies · Performative utterance · Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics · Media, Communication, and Education · Theatre and Performance Studies