Opening Acts: Performance in/as Communication and Cultural Studies

American scholars of communication, performance, and theater outline concepts and contributors to performance-based research; link performance theory and methods to those in critical communication and cultural studies; and provide models of performance as a theoretical, methodological, and representational practice. Among their topics are owning culture in ethnographic research, tourist performance as research method, and remapping the canonical landmark. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portla…