Round 8: 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 in an ethnography of the “Negara” political system on (10[1])Bali. A sociologist drew on this field to describe practices of “impression management” in “front” and “back” places. (10[1])For 10 points, Erving Goffman’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life borrows terms from what field such as “cues”? ■END■

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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