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The Passion Play in Maya Indian Communities*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

June Nash
June Nash
Affiliation:
Yale University
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The dramatic re-enactment of an event compresses in symbolic form psychological and social processes. For this reason, ritual dramas are useful events for the study of transmission of culture and reformulation of tradition. Dramatization as a communication strategy has a special importance for solidarity groups, as Young (1965:2) has pointed out. The potential for transforming given attitudes and values has not been explored by social scientists although playwriters, actors, and directors have consciously or unconsciously attempted this in dramaturgy.

Type
The Spectators' Relation to Drama
Information
Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , April 1968 , pp. 318 - 327
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1968

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