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Margaret Thompson Drewal

Department of Performance Studies

Margaret Thompson Drewal is a performance theorist, dance historian, and ethnographer. She has studied Yoruba (West Africa) and Afro-Brazilian ritual performance, late-19th/early 20th- century American dance and popular entertainments, including performance at early International Expositions. Drewal has special interests in the poetics and politics of performance discourse. She has been trained professionally as a dancer and choreographer.

Education

PhD	New York University

Publications

Performers, Play, and Agency: Yoruba Ritual Process (1989) Need pub info

Gelede: Art and Female Power Among the Yoruba (co-author with Henry Drewal) (1983) Need pub info

Numerous articles that have appeared in journals such as TDR: A Journal of Performance Studies, African Studies Review, African Arts, and The Journal of Ritual Studies.

Courses

311	Performance in Everyday Life
332	Urban Festivity
307	Studies in Gender and Performance