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Acting Together Volume I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence

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A series on Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict, describing peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violence and internal conflicts. The first volume emphasizes the role theatre and ritual play both in the midst and in the aftermath of direct violence.

Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).

Editor Cynthia E. Cohen, Roberto Gutiérrez Varea, Polly O. Walker
Publisher New Village Press
ISBN 978-0981559391
Reference P3116
Date 2011
Type Publication

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