Playing Real: Mimesis, Media, and Mischief By Lindsay Brandon Hunter. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2021; pp. xxiv + 162, 1 illustration. $99.95 cloth, $34.95 paper, $34.95 e-book.

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in original. 10 See Bruno Latour, “Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern,” Critical Inquiry 30.2 (2004): 225–48. 11 Academic debate about this term was triggered by Rustom Bharucha’s essay “Notes on the Invention of Tradition” in his Theatre and the World: Performance and the Politics of Culture (1990; London: Routledge, 1993), 193–211. 12 Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000; new ed., Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007). 13 These comments are from a podcast of 2018 based on a lecture at Australian National University; see “The Knowledge We Value: Dipesh Chakrabarty Talks the Contentious Politics of Knowledge Production,” The Familiar Strange, 4 February 2018, https://thefamiliarstrange.com/2018/02/04/ep-7-dipesh-chakrabarty/, accessed 17 May 2021. 14 Bernard S. Cohn, “History and Anthropology: The State of Play,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 22.2 (1980): 198–221. 15 John London, “The Uncertainty of Fascist Aesthetics: Political Ideology and Historical Reality,” Culture, Theory and Critique 42.1 (1999): 49–63, at 53. 16 Dipesh Chakrabarty, “The Climate of History: Four Theses,” Critical Inquiry 35.2 (2009): 197–222. For a pioneering essay in theatre studies, see Bruce McConachie, “Ethics, Evolution, Ecology, and Performance,” in Readings in Performance and Ecology, ed. Wendy Arons and Theresa J. May (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 91–100. The topic is placed on the international theatre studies agenda in Lisa Woynarski et al., “Dossier: Climate Change and the Decolonized Future of Theatre,” Theatre Research International 45.2 (2020): 179–208. 17 See What Is Adaptive about Adaptive Memory?, ed. Bennett L. Schwartz et al. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). 18 Paul Stoller, Sensuous Scholarship (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997), xvi. 19 Robin Nelson, “Practice-as-Research and the Problem of Knowledge,” Performance Research 11.4 (2006): 105–16.