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performance of culture
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Undergraduate 4
02/20/2007

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performance
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mimesis
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performance
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the act of role playing
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culture
Definition
a group that shares common characteristics
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culture
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something we perform
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culture
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individuals become members by choice or chance
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text
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oral, aural, visual, written
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audience
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someone who watches
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context
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circumstances of performance
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personal narrative
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stories about the self told in ordinary conversations with friends, peers, or family members
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intertextual
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text connecting different types of text
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dialogic
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multiple voices conveying many perspectives and embodying different cultural values which combine to create an open-ended forum
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phonemes
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vocalized sounds
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morphemes
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minimal units of meaning that cannot be broken down into smaller units of meaning
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paralinguistic
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nonverbal elements of speech
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kinesics
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use of bodily movement
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proxemics
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use of space
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cultural artifacts
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action, event, or object perceived as a unified whole, having widely shared meanings and manifesting group identifications
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reify
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to support the status quo
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subvert
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to go against the status quo
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status quo
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the condition or state of affairs that currently exists
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rhetoric
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the ways in which signs influence people
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power
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ability to control events and meanings
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cultural politics
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the social and political forces that influence what elements of a culture are featured or suppressed
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ideology
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system of belief characteristic to a group
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differential identity
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a group defines itself by contrasting it with other groups
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performance reflexivity
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condition in which a sociocultural group (or its most perceptive members) reflect back upon themselves
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chronemics
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use of time
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haptics
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use of touch
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oculesics
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use of eye contact
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stepping
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complex performance event and ritual that involves various combinatios of dancing, singing, chanting, and speaking
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cracking
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one group makes fun of another group verbally, nonverbally, or both
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showdog
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group members who breaks the norm synchroniztion and unity that attempt to get greater audience response
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Elizabeth Fine
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studied personal narratives
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Elizabeth Fine
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wrote the article on stepping, saluting, cracking, and freaking
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Julia Wood
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studies gender
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Kristen Langellier
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wrote breast cancer tattoo and the narrative of performance identity
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Clifford Geertz
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studies ethnography
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Dwight Conquergood
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studies the ethical dimensions of ethnography of performance
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Richard Bauman
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studies facial expressions and lying
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