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In Performing Deception, Brian Rappert reconstructs the practice of entertainment magic by analysing it through the lens of perception, deception and learning, as he goes about studying conjuring himself.
Through this novel meditation on reasoning and skill, Rappert elevates magic from the undertaking of mere trickery to an art that offers the basis for rethinking our possibilities for acting in the modern world.
Performing Deception covers a wide range of theories in sociology, philosophy, psychology and elsewhere in order to offer a striking assessment of the way secrecy and deception are woven into social interactions, as well as the illusionary and paradoxical status of expertise.
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Keywords
- anthropology
- Art forms
- Computing & information technology
- Conjuring & magic
- Dance & other performing arts
- Deception
- entertainment magic
- Hoaxes & deceptions
- Information technology: general issues
- Learning
- Non-graphic art forms
- Other performing arts
- Perception
- Performance art
- Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge
- Psychological methodology
- Psychology
- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- Sociology & anthropology
- The arts
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- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATX Other performing arts::ATXF Conjuring and magic
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBG Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMB Psychological methodology
- thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UB Information technology: general topics
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DOI: 10.11647/obp.0295Editions