Performing transgression : crowds and bodies in Heian Japan /
"What happens when performance defies social and political boundaries? Performing Transgression offers a new cultural history of non-elite spectacle in Heian Japan (794-1185), uncovering how performances on the margins-boisterous dengaku music and dance, daring sangaku acrobatics, and the infec...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Asia Center,
[2026]
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| Series: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
482. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Performance, Order, and Transgression in Heian Japan
- Part 1. Crowds. Transgressive Spaces: Open Festivals in the Heian Capital
- Working the Land: Dengaku, Agriculture, and Rural Practices
- Audience as Crowd: Shin sarugaku ki,Social Typology, and Urban Life
- Part 2. Bodies. Transgressive Bodies: Sangaku, Sarugaku, and Zōge
- Bracketed Bodies, Vanished Voices: Imayō, Abstraction, and the Archive
- Between Bodies: Performance, Identification, Illness, and Contagion
- Conclusion. The Performance in the Document.