Masters of their conditions: at the crossroads of health, culture and performance.
Achieving one's cultural or clinical identity is a matter of performance. The performing body is made through a series of apprenticeships that lead to mastery and then transmission. Performance, like culture and medicine, has its systems of learning, i.e. in the professions of the performing arts. This article examines the methodology of theater anthropology and other aspects of performance studies. Applications to intercultural work are described that make it possible for patient and healer to collaborate to master the condition.
Arpin
Jacques
J
Transcultural Consulting, Thônex-Geneva, Switzerland. j.arpin@geneva-link.ch
D000884:Anthropology, Cultural / Q000379:methods; D003469:Culture; D004324:Drama; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D012962:Sociology, Medical