Dr. J. Lowell Lewis

B.A. Columbia University; B.A. University of Washington; Ph.D. University of Washington (Seattle)
Senior Lecturer, Anthropology and Performance Studies
Mills 167

+61 2 9351-6799

Research areas

• Performance theory
• Semiotics
• Ritual and play theory
• Movement and sound patterns.
• Brazil, Latin America, Aboriginal Australia.

Current projects

• Synthesis of Performance and Cultural Theory (book manuscript in preparation)
• Explorations of Intercorporeality and Implacement (chapter of edited volume, to be expanded into other work)

Selected publications - Books

Ring of Liberation: Deceptive Discourse in Brazilian Capoeira University of
Chicago Press, 1992.

Selected publications - Articles

"Sex and Violence in Brazil: Carnaval, Capoeira, and the problem of everyday life" in American Ethnologist 26(3) 539-557, 1999

"Toward a Unified Theory of Cultural Performance: A Reconstructive Introduction to the work of Victor Turner" in Victor Turner and Cultural Performance Berghahn (in press).

"Place and Space in Contemporary Australian Performance: A Retrospective Consideration" in Contested Ground: Performance and the Politics of Place Peter Lang (forthcoming)

The Anthropology of Cultural Performance (book manuscript)

Areas of teaching and research supervision

TEACHING

• Anthropology of Performance
  
  Intercultural Performance
• Embodiment (Honours Seminar)
• Sport as Cultural Performance (in preparation for 2007)

SUPERVISION

• Croatian folk dance in Australia
• Reyog performances in East Java
• Folk dance in NE Afghanistan; Bodyweather (Butoh) in Australia
• Yoga in Australia
• Suzuki-influenced contemporary performance in Australia
• Phenomenology of Audience Being.