Perf midterm

The 1909 book "Rites of Passage" was written by:

Arnold Van Gennep

Who was the first scholar to introduce the concept of liminality?

Arnold van Gennap

Which of the following is NOT considered a rite of passage:

Bonfire

Which of the following is the last symbolic action performed during the liminal phase of the Abakwetha ritual?

Burning of the lodge and belongings

Erving Goffman was:

Canadian

The Kinaalda is based on a myth about:

Changing Woman

Marvin Carlson is currently on the faculty at

City University of New York

Which of the following is part of personal front?

Clothes

A feeling of camraderie among participants in ritual processes is known as:

Communitas

Intercultural performance Social justice and equity Cultural heritage and citizenship *All of the above

Given its inclusionary spirit, Performance Studies is attuned to concepts of:

Performance Studies is an emerging field that was born in the United States in the 1960s-70s by the common effort of scholars in the fields of theater and anthropology.

Performance Studies function is to study the meaning and repercussion of performance

True

Performance Studies is an inherent constituent of all forms of communications.

False

Performance only applies to showing a skill in a specific context such as a theater, music hall, or sports field.

Schechner proposes expanding the concept of "performance" beyond the performing arts (music, dance, theater) to the scholarly analysis of:

Performative behavior

The most important element for the consummation of a ritual is:

Performing the actions

Manner and appearance are elements of:

Personal front

A tradition is an event that relays on which of the following:

Repetition

Any behavior consciously separated from the person doing it can be considered:

Restored Behavior

According to whom performance involves a consciousness of doubleness?

Richard Bauman

Which of the following scholars identified overlapping and multiple functions of performance?

Richard Schechner

Which of the following theorists coined the term Restored Behavior?

Richard Schechner

Rituals that allow an individual to become something or someone they were not before are named:

Rites of passage

Which of the following actions does NOT belong in the liminal stage of rites of passages:

Ritual subjects re-aggregate to ordinary life

Which of the following are common components of Shamanic practices? (Mark all that apply)

Rituals Dances Musical performances Trance experiences

Which of the following is NOT true about rituals?

Rituals accommodate spontaneous actions

Which of the following is NOT true about rituals?

Rituals do not enact a social change

Which one of the following observances is NOT included in a Kinaálda ceremony?

Sand painting

Which of the followings is NOT an example of personal front:

Scenery

True

Scholar Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett finds the prevailing division of the arts by separated disciplines (music, dance, drama, art history, etc.) problematic.

Goffman's work is mainly about:

Self representation

False

Since its inception, the Performance Studies Department at Northwestern University did NOT focus on rhetoric, communication, speech, and oral interpretation.

In the article Performance Studies: The Broad Spectrum, one of the following universities is mentioned to have included studies of non-Western performances as part of their required core curriculum courses.

Standford

Which of the following characterize a cultural performance:

Temporally bounded Scheduled events Involve an audience and performers * All of the above

Which of the following schools have a "Performance Studies" program?

Texas A&M Northwestern University Brown University *All of the above

When performatives fail, we call them:

Infelicities

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of ritual?

Internal authority

A marginal time-space in which a person is "betwixt and between" a social place or identity is termed:

Liminal

During which state of the rite of passage, do initiates are prohibited to drink water?

Liminal

Symbolic objects, words, and actions are used during which phase in rites of passage?

Liminal

The liminal phase of a rite of passage is considered:

Marginal

Ritual circumcision is associated with which factors in the Xhosa society? (mark all that apply)

Masculinity Social conformity Purification

The term cultural performance was coined by:

Milton Singer

The word mudang, refers to:

A Korean shaman

Based on previous research, Marvin proposes that performance is:

A contested concept

According to Richard Schechner, which of the following can be considered a performance?

A dance recital A job interview A church service *All of the above

Performance Art is a term that refers to:

A genre of interdisciplinary theater

Which one of the following performances may potentially have the most overlapping functions? (functions include: to entertain, make something beautiful, heal, mark or change identity, foster community, teach, persuade, convince, deal with the sacred or demonic)

A sermon

According to Austin, a misfire is:

A situation in which the act is claimed, but ultimately void or not accomplished.

A performative in which the act is completed, accomplished, but in fact it proves hollow is known as:

Abuse

A dance recital A job interview A church service *All of the above

According to Richard Schechner, which of the following can be considered a performance?

True

The field of Performance Studies takes performance as an organizing concept for the study of a wide range of human behavior.

Abuses occur when:

The person performing the performative utterances is not acting in good faith.

Richard Schechner

The scholar who coined the term "Performance Studies" was:

Which of the following utterances is a constative:

The sky is blue

Which of the following could be considered as functions of performance?

To entertain To deal with the sacred To teach To entertain To make something beautiful To convince or persuade * All of the above

What is the main function of rituals?

To establish a social order

Which of the followings in NOT a primary function of rituals.

To make something beautiful

The word Kinaalda means:

To sit in a house

Which one of the following is NOT a function of the Kinaaldá?

To teach her to sing and dance

Trained students in the performing arts struggled to secure a job.

Which of the following challenges contributed to the emergence of Performance Studies as a research field?

Traditions help us develop a sense of predictability, permanence, and belonging to a certain group or concept.

True

The Abakwetha communicate and reinforces important values about manhood among Xhosa speaking people.

True

Traditionally, Korean shamans can be either male or female.

False

The Kinaalda is part of the Blessing Way classification of Navajo ceremonies.

True

Xhosa boys undergo circumcision at age 13.

False

JL Austin famous lecture series "How to Do Things with Words" was first presented in:

1955

Goffman's book The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life was published in:

1959

Which of the following would be considered restored behavior?

An actor playing a character in a play A shaman anointing his followers A priest performing a ritual *All of the above

The word performance means:

An event that involves the presentation of rehearsed artistic actions An event that involves a performer and a spectator An activity that involves the presentation of culturally learned behavior *All of the above

Performance Studies is:

An open field, all inclusive, that studies a broad spectrum of human behavior ranging from ritual, play, sports, popular entertainment, the performing arts (dance, film, music, theater) and everyday life actions to the enactment of social, professional, gender, race, class roles, healing, the media, to Internet. Multidisciplinary field more than a definite field in its own. Performance Studies draws approaches from a variety of disciplines: social sciences, feminist studies, gender studies, history, psychoanalysis, semiotics, ethnology, cybernetics, media and technology, and popular culture studies. Explores a plethora of subjects and utilizes multiple methodologies to analyze the way in which performance pervades our lives at every level, and in this way, may allow us to understand the world as it develops before our eyes. An organizing concept for the study of a wide range of human behavior.

In his book, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Goffman:

Analyzes everyday life interactions as performances and studies how individuals present themselves to others.

Among the Akan people, a spider trickster character is known as:

Ananse

According to Small, which of the following can be considered rituals:

Coronations Olympic Games Symphony Concerts *All of the above

When is a rite is passage consummated?

During the post-liminal phase or re-aggregation

The term anti-structure, coined by Victor Turner refers to:

Equalitarian relationships during the ritual process

The term anti-structure, coined by Victor Turner refers to:

Equalitarian relationships during the ritual process.

A Kinaálda is a female rite of passage that belongs to the "Lifeway" category in the classification of Navajo ceremonies.

False

A setting is always fixed.

False

According to Small, ritual is NOT a metaphorical behavior.

False

After the rite of passage, ritual subjects are NOT expected to behave in accordance with the norms and standards of their new social position.

False

An Aggie Football game rarely fosters community.

False

Cultural Performances are not necessarily reflective of the cultural idiosyncrasies of their societies.

False

Humans use restored behavior only in aesthetic settings such as a play, a movie, or musical performance.

False

In the early phases of human society, religion, ritual, and art were separate activities.

False

Liminal rituals are transportation performances.

False

Performance Art is Performance Studies.

False

Performance only applies to showing a skill in specific context such as a theater, music hall, or sports field.

False

Performative utterances can be true or false.

False

Rituals encompass change of occasion, content, or form.

False

The setting of a performance is always geographically fixed. No exceptions.

False

To restore your behavior means to make corrections to bad habits.

False

Performatives that accomplish what they intend to accomplish are called:

Felicities

A signal that tells an audience how to interpret the communication act is known as:

Frame

The word shaman literally means:

He or she who knows

Which of the followings is a performative? (Mark all that apply)

I promise you I bet he is late

The term "performance" has recently grown in usage when referring to a broad spectrum of activities in the arts, literature, social science, and beyond.

True

United States

The academic field of Performance Studies originated in which country?

The term 'restoration' of behavior alludes to the re-construction and re-use of strips of behavior.

True

Our capacity to manage our impression of reality in social encounters relays in:

The utilization of expressive tools and knowing rules of interactions.

According to Goffman, "front" in performance refers to:

The various expressive elements of a performance that help to define the situation for the audience

what exactly scholars and artists in Performance Studies do?

They explore the cultural politics of expressive forms, or in other words, explore the ways in which performers and audiences use performance to both think and respond to larger social forces. Both, artists and scholars are concerned with a large range of subjects including: Cultural equity, social justice and identity because the field is particularly attuned to issues of place, personhood, cultural citizenship, and equity. For instance, how does a specific aesthetic form (a type of performance) contributes to create identity? How does performance (a national march, for instance) contribute to express equity and social justice? Intercultural Performance is an area that examines the repercussions of bringing performances of diverse origins to conversation and collaboration with one another. How do aesthetic forms influence each other? Heritage culture is a way of producing the local for export. The performance of culture becomes a commodity, that is, a product that can be sold for touristic consumption. Media and technology. Performance Studies scholars explore issues of culture and creativity in relation to technology, changing knowledge, and the shifting configuration of the global and local.

Rites of passage can be divided in how many phases?

Three

A Naerin Kut is an initiation ritual for Korean shamans in the charismatic tradition.

True

A performative is an utterance that performs an action.

True

A traditional definition of performance entails the public display of technical skills

True

According to Goffman, the self uses expressive tools to influence the impression of reality it portrays to others.

True

According to Richard Schechner, performance is "twice-behaved behavior."

True

Akan storytelling at Ekumfi-Atwia include elaborate staged public performances that involve the entire community.

True

All activity carried out with consciousness of itself can be considered a performance.

True

Any behavior that resembles theater can be considered "performative"

True

Beside the fact that weddings are beautiful and often entertaining events, their major function consist in marking a change in a person's identity.

True

By performing a ritual I am indicating to myself and others that I accept the canon of the ritual I am performing.

True

Communitas is described by Turner as a social bond between ritual participants.

True

Communities are defined by the rituals they share.

True

Constative utterance can be either true or false

True

Examples of secular rituals include the observance of holidays such as Thanksgiving and Memorial Day.

True

Front are the various expressive elements of a performance that contributes to define the situation for those who observe the performance.

True

In Carlson's opinion, there is a strand of performance that is typically framed and judged by its observers and often applies to non-human activity.

True

In Goffman's dramaturgical model daily social interactions are compared to a form of theater.

True

Infelicities are failed performatives.

True

People create their own rituals to keep alive a sense of who they are, where they belong, and what they think the relationships of the world ought to be.

True

Performative utterances rest on convention and reiteration.

True

Restored behavior is a quality of performance that deals with the distance between the self and the behavior.

True

Richard Schechner proposes a reconstruction of curricula in performing arts departments urging them to expand their areas of study.

True

Rites of passage mark a change in status, identity or role.

True

Ritual is the art of performance mobilized in the service of a social or religious imperative.

True

Rituals can be used by communities to exclude those individuals they do not want to include.

True

Rituals exemplify and reinforce the values and beliefs of their communities.

True

Schechner encourages conversation between performance studies specialists and administrators responsible for planning undergraduate core curricula.

True

Shamanism is a spiritual practice that identifies no leader or set of rules.

True

Sinbyŏng is Korean word that denotes a spiritual illness that is suffered by female shamans in the Korean Peninsula.

True