Cristiana Giordano, Greg Pierotti

Affect Ethnography (eBook, PDF)

Exploring Performance and Narrative in the Creation of Unstories

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Playing with the relation between truth and representation in the stories we tell as ethnographers and theater makers, this book contributes to the current debates around experimental research methodologies and ethnographically grounded theatrical forms. It departs from other studies by proposing a unique and accessible methodology that brings together theatrical devising practices and anthropology.

Through its theoretical exploration and performative script, the book bridges the relation between ethnographic writing and performativity, and simultaneously troubles conventional narrative practices in theater and anthropology. The practice described in the book, Affect Theater, also emphasizes embodied and affective approaches to empirical research and defines a process for rendering this type of material into imaginative academic writing, collaborative performance, and other inventive forms, applicable across a range of academic disciplines.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350374836
• Artikelnr.: 70376218

Autorenporträt

Cristiana Giordano is Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Davis, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Acknowledgments Preface Part I 1. Affect Theater: A
Collaboration between Theatre and Anthropology Association #1: How to Read
the Following Performative Text 2. Unstories: A Performative Text
Association #2: Post Scriptum: Translating Performance into Text Part II
3. Minor Stories: On Movement and Borders 4. Scenes of Loss and Arrival:
The Associative Force of Objects Association #3: A Hole in the Fence 5.
Ways of Drawing: Beyond "Refugee Crisis" Association #4: What's in a List:
The Affect of the Archive Part III 6. The Trouble with Storytelling:
Representing the Real Reverberations from Collaborators 7. Tools for
Teaching and Practice References Index