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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790458503321

Autore

Kazubowski-Houston Magdalena <1971->

Titolo

Staging strife [[electronic resource] ] : lessons from performing ethnography with Polish Roma women / / Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston

Pubbl/distr/stampa

MontreĢal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-7735-8418-8

1-283-53035-X

9786613842800

0-7735-8120-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Disciplina

792.01/3

Soggetti

Theater - Anthropological aspects - Poland

Women, Romani - Poland - Social conditions

Participant observation

Ethnology - Methodology

Social sciences - Research - Methodology

Theater and society - Poland

Theater - Political aspects - Poland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-251) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the fortune-tellers -- A theatre anthropologist's baggage -- The Roma women's lives -- Forming the theatre company -- Rehearsals I : the theatre process -- Rehearsals II : the human process -- Opening night -- Conclusion : in leaving.

Sommario/riassunto

Concerned with traditional power imbalances between researchers and participants, contemporary social science has begun using collaborative research as an empowering methodology that involves participants in key decisions. Collaborative research is a potentially revolutionary method for studying people and their cultures, but does it work in practice? Staging Strife looks at the limits of this methodology by examining a politically charged theatre performance undertaken with a group of Roma women in Poland.