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

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Madison, D. Soyini.

Contributor:

• George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Ethnology--Methodology.
• 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

Online:

The George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund Home Page