The Study of Performing Arts Through the Prism of an Anthropology of Aesthetics

This text proposes a contribution to the study of performing practices with an anthropological approach where aesthetics, understood as aisthesis, stands as a hermeneutic reading of the forms of socialization and individuation acting in the phenomenon studied. It presents an epistemological apparatus in which notions of rhythm and relation, irreducible atoms of any form of aisthesis, have a paradigmatic value. Through them, we could read the modes of production, reception, and appropriation characterizing forms of praxis whose degrees of construction (of action, experience and imagination) and intentionality, are the variables determining their singularity and their insertion in socially constructed (artistic) devices.