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Performances may be categorized as either habitual or heightened. Both are discourses that structure individual and group identities and function at different levels. The heightened or ritualized performance integrates language (verbal art) with the body as well as the space utilized by that body (kinesthesia). This type of performance provides a ground for emergent text, the social indicator of change, for it is in the theater that subversion may occur in the form of parody and appropriation. The findings and analysis of fieldwork on Moroccan 'halqa' illustrate this concept.
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The concept of context seeks to locate a performance within a framework so that analysis can get as close to the meaning of the performance as possible. Framing creates the boundaries that mark out the particular space and time in which the performance occurs and orientates both the narrated performance and the reader of that performance. Only thus can the narrative be evaluated to establish its relevance to the occasion. Such evaluation then serves as a guide to interpretation.
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The author discusses folklorists' role in the public sphere, focusing on their impact in university and government institutions. Topics include the relationship between the symbolic public sphere and actual physical spaces, and how folklore relates to structuralism, cultural relativism, and constructivism.
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