Research
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Article: Robot: Ritual Fetish and Oracle
Chapter: The Performance of Body, Space and Place: Creating Indigenous Performance
Books
Performing Africa ReMixing Tradition, Theatre and Culture download book details
Performing Africa is a collection of essays on contemporary African performance. From 1992 to 2002, Thomas Riccio worked with several groups in South Africa, Zambia, Tanzania, West Africa, and Kenya - the Zulu and the !Xuu Bushmen of the Kalahari among them. Performing Africa combines a rare, in-the-field perspective with a keen insight into Africa's transformative and tumultuous confluence of tradition, urbanization, politics, history, and the AIDS crisis. The evolution of tradition and the emergence of dynamic new forms of expression are a matter of practical necessity and survival. An interdisciplinary approach and accessible language make Performing Africa a unique resource for those teaching or interested in the fields of cultural anthropology, sociology, drama therapy, theatre, performance, and African studies. Amazon
Reinventing Traditional Alaska Native Performance
Mellen Press, New York, London, (Studies in Theatre Arts, V. 17), 2003. 376 pp. ISBN-10: 0773469877 Amazon
Published Research Select Journal Articles
Emandulo: Process & Performance in Changing South Africa Theatre Research International
Politics, Slapstick, and Zulus on TourTDR
In Zambia, Performing The SpiritsTheatreForum
N!ngo Ngiao, People Come Out of Here (!Xuu Bushmen)TheatreForum
Tanzanian Theatre: From Marx to the MarketplaceTDR
Kenya's Community Health Awareness PuppeteersPerforming Arts Journal PAJ
A Message from the Eagle Mother (Inupiat Kiviq Festival)TDR
Traditional Alaskan Eskimo Theatre: Spirits of the Earth Theatre Topics
Reimagining of Yup'ik and Inupiat Performance Northwest Theatre Review
Other and Current Research
Body as Text: Yup'ik Eskimo Story Dancingpdf
Finding a Way Back: Creating Trance Performance pdf
Being African, Acting Frenchpdf
(Re) Mixing Place, Culture and Performancepdf
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!Xuu Bushmen, Kalahari
Miao shaman, southern China
Sangoma apprentice, Zululand
in conversation with Hanson Robotic's Jules
Rehearsals, Zambia
Rehearsals, Sakha, Siberia
Workshops, St. Petersburg, Russia
Talk, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia