- Title
- Masks and cultural contexts drama education and anthropology
- Creator
- Roy, David
- Relation
- International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 7, Issue 10, p. 214-218
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.5897/IJSA2015.0618
- Publisher
- Academic Journals
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- In the developed 'western' society, masks are consistently used in Drama Education, though it is usually through the specific knowledge of Drama and Theatre practice that they are contextualised. Drawing upon cultural understandings of the past and present, anthropology offers a context for masks and drama demonstrating that the purpose for masks in society supports the wider educational benefits, beyond the academic, for child development in formal education. This paper explores many of the historical and present day occidental usages of masks beyond a pragmatic purpose, as well as the educational application of masks and reframes the potential for schools to engage with anthropological concepts in a crowed curriculum.
- Subject
- masks; cultural identity; drama; education
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1325598
- Identifier
- uon:25310
- Identifier
- ISSN:2006-988X
- Rights
- Copyright © 2015 Author(s) retain the copyright of this article. This article is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0
- Language
- eng
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