Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
A Companion Video
Reader's Road Map
Acknowledgments
1. Theory and Method in the Study of Ritual Performance
2. Yoruba Play and the Tranformation of Ritual
3. The Ontological Journey
4. New Beginnings
5. Establishing the Self
6. Ritual Play about Play: Performing Miracles in Honor of the Ancestors
7. The Collective in Conflict, or, the Play of Personalities
8. From Militarism to Dandyism: The Shaping of Performance
9. Reinventing Ritual: The Imewuro Annual Rally
10. Gender Play
Envoi
Glossary
Notes
Sources Cited
Index

About the Author

MARGARET THOMPSON DREWAL is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University. A performance theorist specializing in cultural studies, she is co-author (with Henry John Drewal) of Gelede: Art and Female Power among the Yoruba.