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