Mementos, Artifacts and Hallucinations from the Ethnographer's Tent

Mementos, Artifacts and Hallucinations from the Ethnographer's Tent
Author: RON EMOFF
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2002-09-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136770356

With contributions from leading researchers in the fields of anthropology, ethnomusicology, and folklore, this volume contains personal, imaginative accounts of ethnographic fieldwork that do not fit into a traditional scholarly context, yet are a vital part of research. Some pieces are engaging autobiographical accounts of ethnographers' experienc

Intimate Entanglements in the Ethnography of Performance

Intimate Entanglements in the Ethnography of Performance
Author: Sidra Lawrence
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2023
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1648250637

Offers expansive and intersecting understandings of erotic subjectivity, intimacy, and trauma in performance ethnography and in institutional and disciplinary settings. Focused on research within Africa and the African diaspora, contributors to this volume think through the painful iterations of trauma, systemic racism, and the vestiges of colonial oppression as well as the processes of healing and emancipation that emerge from wounded states. Their chapters explore an acoustemology of intimacy, woman-centered eroticism generated through musical performance, desire and longing in ethnographic knowledge production, and listening as intimacy. On the other end of the spectrum, authors engage with and question the fetishization of race in jazz; examine conceptions of vulgarity and profanity in movement and dance-ethnography; and address pain, trauma, and violation, whether physical, spiritual, intellectual, or political. Authors in this volume strive toward empathetic, ethical, and creative ethnographic engagements that summon vulnerability and healing. They propose pathways to aesthetic, discursive transformation by reorienting conceptions of knowledge as emergent, performative, and sonically enabled. The resulting book explores sensory knowledge that is frequently left unacknowledged in ethnographic work, advancing conversations about performed sonic and somatic modalities through which we navigate our entanglements as engaged scholars.

The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography

The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography
Author: Luke E. Lassiter
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2005-09-15
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0226468909

Collaboration between ethnographers and subjects has long been a product of the close, intimate relationships that define ethnographic research. But increasingly, collaboration is no longer viewed as merely a consequence of fieldwork; instead collaboration now preconditions and shapes research design as well as its dissemination. As a result, ethnographic subjects are shifting from being informants to being consultants. The emergence of collaborative ethnography highlights this relationship between consultant and ethnographer, moving it to center stage as a calculated part not only of fieldwork but also of the writing process itself. The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography presents a historical, theoretical, and practice-oriented road map for this shift from incidental collaboration to a more conscious and explicit collaborative strategy. Luke Eric Lassiter charts the history of collaborative ethnography from its earliest implementation to its contemporary emergence in fields such as feminism, humanistic anthropology, and critical ethnography. On this historical and theoretical base, Lassiter outlines concrete steps for achieving a more deliberate and overt collaborative practice throughout the processes of fieldwork and writing. As a participatory action situated in the ethical commitments between ethnographers and consultants and focused on the co-construction of texts, collaborative ethnography, argues Lassiter, is among the most powerful ways to press ethnographic fieldwork and writing into the service of an applied and public scholarship. A comprehensive and highly accessible handbook for ethnographers of all stripes, The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography will become a fixture in the development of a critical practice of anthropology, invaluable to both undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty alike.

Drawn to See

Drawn to See
Author: Andrew Causey
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1442636653

In this meditation/how-to guide on drawing as an ethnographic method, Andrew Causey offers insights, inspiration, practical techniques, and encouragement for social scientists interested in exploring drawing as a way of translating what they "see" during their research.

Theorizing Sound Writing

Theorizing Sound Writing
Author: Deborah Kapchan
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2017-04-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0819576662

The study of listening—aurality—and its relation to writing is the subject of this eclectic edited volume. Theorizing Sound Writing explores the relationship between sound, theory, language, and inscription. This volume contains an impressive lineup of scholars from anthropology, ethnomusicology, musicology, performance, and sound studies. The contributors write about sound in their ongoing work, while also making an intervention into the ethics of academic knowledge, one in which listening is the first step not only in translating sound into words but also in compassionate scholarship.

Anthropological Fieldwork

Anthropological Fieldwork
Author: Dimitrina Spencer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2010
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

Exploring the emotions of anthropologists arising during fieldwork and their role in how we gain ethnographic knowledge, this book explains how they 'manage' emotions or allow them to unfold as vehicles of knowing.

Writing in the San/d

Writing in the San/d
Author: Keyan G. Tomaselli
Publisher: Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Writing in the San/d details experiences and encounters with First People's ('Bushmen') living in the Kalahari Desert (Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa) (1995-2004), and a Khoi (1984) community in the eastern Cape, South Africa.