Anthropology and Performance. Nobody’s land or everybody’s land?

This article aims to present and debate critically the performative turn in Performance Studies and ritual, trying to understand the relations that performance can establish with the political so that one can think of performance as a way of documenting / analyzing the social world. In order to do so, a theoretical complex is needed in order to establish Performance Studies as a field that escapes a definitive focus and defines itself as an anti-discipline.