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Article Excerpt
ANYA PETERSON ROYCE, Anthropology of the Performing Arts: Artistry, Virtuosity, and Interpretation in a Cross-Cultural Perspective. New York: Altamira Press, 2004, xi + 247 p.
In this beautifully written book, Anya Peterson Royce, who is widely acknowledged as one of the anthropological "pioneers" of the study of the performing arts, and of dance in particular, seeks to merge her personal background as a classical ballerina with her experience as an anthropologist and ethnographer. As Royce (228) suggests, "knowing something by the doing of it and knowing something by the thinking about it are quite different experiences. What I have brought together in this book are both those ways of knowing." In this book, which is best described as a series of personal essays, she argues that there exists a long history of interpretive anthropological analyses of the visual arts, but the more abstract, discursively elusive qualities of artistry and virtuosity in various genres of performing arts, such as music,...
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