文档介绍：THEATRE/ARCHAEOLOGY
What is the connection between site-specific performance and interpretation of the past?
How and why can the documentation of contemporary performance be related to ancient
performative practices, such as Greek warfare?
Theatre/Archaeology is a brilliant and provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual
boundaries. It brings together radical proposals in both archaeological and performance theory to
generate a startlingly original and intriguing methodological framework. It facilitates a new way of
investigating landscape and cityscape, and notions of physicality, encounter, site and context.
The book takes scholarly innovation to new levels. It is the result of a long-term, unique
collaboration between a renowned archaeological theorist and a leading theatre artist. The result
is vibrant dialogic writing that bridges the scholarly/poetic divide.
In its unique integration of theory, narrative and autobiography, Theatre/Archaeology brings a
new dimension to two burgeoning fields of enquiry.
Mike Pearson is Professor of Performance Studies at the University of Wales Aberystwyth.
For thirty years he has pioneered innovative approaches in the practice, theory, pedagogy and
documentation of performance. From 1981 to 1997 he was an artistic director of the theatre
company Brith Gof.
Michael Shanks is Professor of Classics and of Cultural Anthropology at Stanford University. He
is one of the world’s foremost archaeological thinkers, and author of many works including
Reconstructing Archaeology (1992), Experiencing the Past (1992), Classical Archaeology of Greece
(1996) and Art and the Greek City State (1999).
THEATRE/ARCHAEOLOGY
MIKE PEARSON MICHAEL SHANKS
London and New York
First published 2001 by Routledge
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