Convergence of Paradigms

I turn to anthropology not as to a problem-solving science but because I sense a convergence of paradigms.  Just as theatre is athropologizing itself, so anthropology is being theatricalized. […] The convergence of anthropology and theatre is part of a larger intellectual movement where the understanding of human behavior is changing from quantifiable differences between cause and effect, past and present, form and content, et cetera (and the linear modes of analysis that explicate such a world view) to an emphasis on the deconstruction/reconstruction of actualities: the processes of framing, editing, and rehearsing.