Are there universals in performance in myth, ritual, and drama? / Victor Turner -- Magnitudes of performance / Richard Schechner -- Liminality : a synthesis of subjective and objective experience / Colin Turnbull -- Yaqui deer dance at Pascua Pueblo, Arizona / Edith Turner -- Yaqui point of view : on Yaqui ceremonies and anthropologist / Anselmo Valencia, Heather Valencia, Rosamond B. Spicer -- Performance of precepts/precepts of performance : Hasidic celebrations of Purim in Brooklyn / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- Significance of performance for its audience : an analysis of three Sri Lankan rituals / Ranjini Obeyesekere -- What does it mean to "become the character" : power, presence, and transcendence in Asian in-body disciplines of practice / Phillip Zarrilli -- Korean shamans : role playing through trance possession / Du-Hyun Lee -- Practice of noh theatre / Monica Bethe, Karen Brazell -- Profanation of the sacred in circus clown performances / Paul Bouissac -- Ethnographic notes on sacred and profane performance / James L. Peacock.

Spatial sense of the sacred in Spanish America and the American South and its tie with performance / Miles Richardson -- Space and context / Yi-fu Tuan -- Transformation of consciousness in ritual performances : some thouthts and questions / Barbara Myerhoff -- Universals of performance; or amortizing play.