Critical ethnography : method, ethics, and performance / D. Soyini Madison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Madison, D. Soyini.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund. PU

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Methodology.

Ethnology.

Ethnology--Fieldwork.

Anthropological ethics.

Physical Description:

xiv, 285 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, [2012]

Summary:

"This text presents a fresh new look at critical ethnography by emphasizing the significance of ethics and performance in the art and politics of fieldwork. The book explores an ethics of ethnography while illustrating the relevance of performance ethnography across disciplinary boundaries. The new edition is comprehensive, incorporating more extended discussions on theories and methods, thereby providing the reader with a broad range of considerations and choices. It also includes chapters on visual culture and performance"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Introduction to Critical Ethnography: Theory and Method 1

Defining Terms: What Is the Critical in Critical Ethnography? 5

Dialogue and Others 10

The Method and Theory Nexus 13

Summary 15

Warm-Ups 17

2 Methods: "Do I Really Need a Method?" A Method ... or Deep Hanging Out? 19

"Who Am I?" Starting Where You Are 21

"Who Else Has Written About My Topic?" Being a Part of an Interpretive Community 22

The Power of Purpose: Bracketing Your Subject 22

Preparing for the Field: The Research Design and Lay Summary 24

The Research Design 24

The Lay Summary 25

Interviewing and Field Techniques 27

Formulating Questions 28

Two Classic Models 29

One: The Patton Model 29

Two: The Spradley Model 31

Extra Tips for Formulating Questions 33

More Models 33

Initial Brainstorming and Puzzlements 33

Memory and the Oral History Interview 34

Langellier and Peterson's Four Entry Points of Analysis 37

Attributes of the Interviewer and Building Rapport 39

Mindful Rapport 39

Anticipation 39

Positive Naïveness 39

Active Thinking and Sympathetic Listening 40

Status Difference 40

Patiently Probing 40

Classic "Threats" 41

Coding and Logging Data 43

An Alternative View: Amira De La Garza and the Four Seasons of Ethnography 45

Summary 49

Warm-Ups 49

3 Three Stories: Case Studies in Critical Ethnography 51

Case 1 Local Activism in West Africa 52

Key Concepts in Postcolonial and Marxist Theory 52

Key Concepts in Postcolonialism 55

Key Concepts in Marxist Thought 62

Case 2 Secrets, Sexuality, and Oral History 67

Key Concepts in Phenomenology 70

Subjectivity and Belonging 73

Biopolitics and Affect 75

Key Concepts in Sexuality 77

Case 3 Community Theatre: Conflicts and Organization 81

Key Concepts in Theories of Difference: Race 84

Key Concepts in Theories of Difference: Gender 89

Problems of Gender in the Field: "Women Like Us and Women Not Like Us" 91

Warm-Ups 93

4 Ethics 95

Ethics Is ... 96

Advocacy and Ethics 97

Religion and Ethics 102

Interview With Desmond Tutu 102

The Question of Freedom 107

Critical Ethnography and the Ethics of Reason, the Greater Good, and Others 109

Reason 109

The Greater Good 111

Maria Lugones: Contemporary Ethics, Ethnography, and Loving Perception 118

World Traveling and Loving Perception 118

Summary 123

Warm-Ups 125

5 Methods and Ethics 127

Codes of Ethics for Fieldwork 128

Code of Ethics of the American Anthropological Association 128

Extending the Codes 137

Moral Dilemmas 137

Conceptual Errors 140

Dialogical Performance 142

Warm-Ups 146

6 Methods and Application: Three Case Studies in Ethical Dilemmas 147

Case 1 Local Activism in West Africa 147

Advocacy, Representation, and Voice 147

Method and Advocacy 151

Case 2 Secrets, Sexuality, and Oral History 155

Trust, Confidentiality, and Informed Consent 155

Method and Confidentiality 158

Case 3 Community Theatre: Conflicts and Organization 160

Fairness, Critical Judgment, and Policy Implications 160

Method and Criticism 161

Warm-Ups 163

7 Performance Ethnography 165

Foundational Concepts in Performance and Social Theory 166

Performance as Experience 166

Performance as Social Behavior 168

Performance as Language and Identity 177

Performativity 179

Utopian Performatives 182

The Performance Interventions of Dwight Conquergood 184

Process and Performance 184

The Body and Scriptocentrism 185

Dialogical Performance 186

Cultural Politics 187

Staging Ethnography and the Performance of Possibilities 190

The Subjects 191

The Audience 193

The Performers 195

Autoethnography and/or Reflexive Ethnography 197

Three Examples of Critical Reflexivity in Autoethnography 199

Warm-Ups 208

8 It's Time to Write: Writing as Performance 209

Getting Started: In Search of the Muse 210

Research Questions and Statement of Purpose 211

The Muse Map and the Road Map 211

Schedules and Time Management 213

First Draft and Free Writing 216

The Anxiety of Writing: Wild Mind and Monkey Mind 217

Continents, Islands, and the Editor 218

Writing as Performance and Performance as Writing 220

Performative Writing Is to Embrace 220

Performative Writing Is to Enact 223

Performative Writing Is to Embody 227

Performative Writing Is to Effect 230

Warm-Ups 232

9 The Case Studies 233

Case 1 Staging Cultural Performance 233

Why Did Joan Choose to Adopt and Direct a Cultural Performance From Her Fieldwork? 234

How Did Joan Translate Her Fieldwork to the Stage? What Was Her Process? 234

What Stage Techniques Did Joan Adapt? 235

Did Joan Encourage a Collaborative Process in Directing the Performance? 237

Could Joan Have Employed a More Collaborative Approach? 238

Case 2 Oral History and Performance 238

What Is Poetic Transcription? 239

Did Robert's Theoretical Analysis Threaten to Diminish the Living Voices and Perspectives of His Narrators? 242

Case 3 The Fieldwork of Social Drama and Communitas 243

When Did the Breach Occur? 244

How Did the Crisis Evolve? 244

What Form Did Redressive Action Take? 245

How Did Communitas Invoke Reintegration? 246

Warm-Ups 248.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

1412980240

9781412980241

OCLC:

701672511

Publisher Number:

99944269183