Attention in Performance: Acting Lessons in Sensory Anthropology

ISBN-13: 9780367483296 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 168 str.

Cassis Kilian

Opis

This book elucidates how learning from actors enables an intense education of attention for anthropologists. Actors perform the perception of sunshine, the sensation of pain, affects such as shock and emotions such as happiness; they act quarrels, erotic attraction, leadership and submission on stage.

O autorze

Cassis Kilian worked for more than twenty years as an actor before she wrote a dissertation on African film. She teaches in the department of anthropology and African studies at Mainz University, Germany. Her publications focus on media, racism, cosmopolitanism, senses, perception, methodology and epistemology