Lizeth: Notes on Chapter 1

The Seven Theories on Theatre & Social Sceinces
1. Performance in everyday life, including gatherings of every kind.
2. The structure of sports, ritual, play, and public political behavior.
3. Analysis of various modes of communication; semiotics
4. Connections between human and animal behavior patterns with an emphasis on play and ritualized behavior.
5. Aspects of psychotherapy that emphasize person-to-person interaction, acting out, and body awareness.
6. Ethnographhy and prehistory- of both exotic and familiar cultures.
7. Constitution of unified theories of performance, which are, in fact, theories of behavior.

Performance is observed by anthropologists and sociologists and it is analyzed by different theories that are listed at the top. In the 1960's and 1970's anthropologists became more of an interest to theatre and performance. Turner brought up the terms liminoid and liminal and Turner considered liminal activities to be "anti-structure". He considered Liminoid to be  defined as much more limited and better structured that liminal. Performance is seen differently, from a social or psychological perspective, but it is equally important.