approaches

	a literary approach – reading into the work (author, genre, character, motivation  plot …)
	anthropology and cultural location
	historical and social context
	archaeology and a sensitivity to materiality
	a comparative perspective –
	not (necessarily) the assertion of identity
	but frictions generating insight
	and one that uses the work as a resource in exploring the cultural imaginary

located bodies – three the performing/performed body

the performance of everyday life

	the metaphor of performance

performance – some concepts

	staging and mis-en-scène
	props and costume
	gesture
	posture
	habitus – habit, custom, acquired abilities and faculties
	techniques of the body
	proxemics
	scale
	reach
	haptics

the performing body

	what is its location, its place?
	– a designed and dynamic ‘staging’,  saturated with significances
	– a continuity through architecture, environment, material goods and physical bodies

performativity and identity

	identity (for example gender) is not something inherent or intrinsic to a person
	identity is what emerges from reiterated action
	with action conceived as the performance of selfhood
	a notion of performativity and gender associated with Judith Butler