Nellie: Ch.1 Vocabulary

Restored Behavior: (Richard Schechner) activity consciously separated from the person doing it, most commonly a strip of performance offered as if it is being quoted from elsewhere, as in ritual, theatre, and other role-playing .
Cultural Performance: (Milton Singer) particular organized units of activity of events within a society that involves a set of performers and an audience, including theatre and dance but also such social rituals as weddings and religious celebrations.
Script: (Eric Berne) a normative pattern of social activity repeated, possibly woth variations, by individual members of a culture.
Ethnography (of Communication): Descriptive anthropology.
Social Drama:(Victor Truner) repeated structures of action by which societies react to challenges to established order. Faced with such a challenge the society enters a liminal state in which ordinary rules and practices are relaxed, and mergers from this into reintegrated state in which the challenge is absorbed or rejected.
Liminal: (Arnold Van Gennep) situated in a transitional state between two established positions in a social drama.
Liminoid: (Victor Turner) a more restricted and individual form of the liminal, more characteristic of modern industrialized societies, with less clear and widely accepted cultural practices than traditional societies. Ex) theatre, play, and recreation.
Deep Play and Shallow Play: (Clifford Geertz) per formative activity in which the participants reflect upon the assumption of their own culture- in a more distanced and less serious manner in shallow play, and in a manner that may lead to serious challengeto those assumptions and perhaps to change in them in deep play.:
Framing: (Gregory Bateson and Erving Goffman) any devise or convention which allows certain messages or symbols to be set apart and considered to have a special relationship to everyday reality.
Agon: (Roger Caillois) one of the fundamental activities in human play, form the Greek word for “contest’ or “conflict,” thus the working out of the encounter of two opposing forces or concepts.
Mimicry: (Luce Irigaray) in response to Plato’s concept of mimesis, or imitation, an excessive multiplication of similar alternatives in order to undermine the concept of a single, monolithic Truth.
Alea: (Roger Caillios) or “change,” referring to the spontaneous, improvised quality of play.
Ilinx: (Roger Caillios) or “vertigo,” referring to the tendency of play to destabilize the normal structure of perception.
Flow: (Mihaly Csukszentmihslyi) the sensation felt in creative, playful, pr religious experience when the normal process of intellectual reflection is suspended in the pleasure of the present moment.
Communitas: (Johan Huizinga) the feeling a spirit of totality or togetherness in a cultural group.
performative: (John Austin) a speaking situation in which the words spoken do not simply assert, but perform some action. Opposed to the tradition idea of speech as assertion, which he called connotative.
Creolized: (James Clifford) the process of mixing and layering a variety of different cultures together.