Round 7: Tossup 14

A 1974 book describes how “social” situations named for this field begin with a rule-breaking “breach,” followed by a crisis and possible “irreparable schism.” The journal PAJ focuses on cross-disciplinary “studies” named for this field and was co-founded by Richard Schechner. After working on liminality, (15[1])Victor Turner studied the symbolic action of this discipline in books like From Ritual to [it]. Assessment of a polity as a (*) “hydraulic bureaucracy” is rejected in favor of a model named for this field (10[1])in an ethnography of the “Negara” political system on Bali. (10[1])A sociologist drew on this field to describe practices of “impression management” in “front” and “back” places. For 10 points, Erving Goffman’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life borrows terms from what field such as “cues”? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: theater [or acting; or drama; or performance; accept dramaturgy or dramaturgical analysis; accept the stage; accept social dramas; accept performance studies; accept the theatre state; accept Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors; accept From Ritual to Theater] (The first sentence refers to Victor Turner’s theory of social drama; the fourth sentence refers to Clifford Geertz’s Negara: The Theatre State in 19th Century Bali)
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