Critical ethnography [[electronic resource] ] : methods, ethics, and performance / / D. Soyini Madison

• Autore: Madison D. Soyini
• Pubblicazione: London, : SAGE, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 245 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8
• Soggetto topico: Ethnology - Methodology; Ethnology - Fieldwork; Anthropological ethics
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-231) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: Critical Ethnography: Theory and Method -- Positionality and Shades of Ethnography -- Dialogue and the Other -- Note: Brief Historical Overview of Critical Ethnography -- The Method and Theory Nexus -- Warm-Ups -- Suggested Readings -- Chapter Two: Methods -- Who Am I? Starting Where You Are -- Who Else Has Written About My Topic? Being Part of an Interpretive Community -- The Power of Purpose: Bracketing Your Subject -- Preparing for the Field: The Research Design and Lay Summary -- The Research Design -- The Lay Summary -- Interviewing and Field Techniques -- Formulating Questions -- Patton Model -- Spradly Model -- Extra Tips for Formulating Questions -- Attributes of the Interviewer -- Mindful Rapport -- Anticipation -- Positive Naiveness -- Active Thinking and Sympathetic Listening -- Status Difference -- Patiently Probing -- Gordon Model -- Coding and Logging Data -- Note About Computers -- Warm-Ups -- Suggested Readings -- Chapter Three: Three Stories: Case Studies in Critical Ethnography -- Case One: Local Activism in West Africa -- Key Concepts in Postcolonial and Marxist Criticism -- Key Concepts in Postcolonialism -- Note: Brief Historical Context -- Key Concepts in Marxist Thought -- Case Two: Secrets of Sexuality and Personal Narrative -- Key Concepts in Phenomenology -- Key Concepts in Subjectivity, Symbolism, and Sexuality -- Case Three: Community Theatre: Conflicts and Organization -- Key Concepts in Theories of Difference: Race and Gender -- Warm-Ups -- Suggested Readings -- Chapter Four: Ethics -- Defining Ethics -- Where Did the Notion of Ethics Begin? -- What Constitutes an Ethical or Moral Act? -- What Is the Relationship Between Religion and Ethics? -- Do We Need Religion or a Belief in The Divine for Ethical Behavior? Is It the Nature of Human Beings to Be Good? -- Where Is Evil Positioned in the Idea of Ethics? -- Critical Ethnography and the Ethics of Reason, the Greater Good, and the Other -- Reason -- The Greater Good -- The Other -- Note: Postmodernism -- Maria Lugones: Contemporary Ethics, Ethnography, and Loving Perception -- World Traveling and Loving Perception -- Summary -- Warm-Ups -- Suggested Readings -- Chapter Five: Methods and Ethics -- Codes of Ethics for Fieldwork -- Code of Ethics of the American Anthropological Association -- Note: Hate Groups, Advocacy, and Responsibility -- Note: Institutional Review Board -- Extending the Codes -- Moral Dilemmas -- Conceptual Errors -- Dialogical Performance -- Warm-Ups -- Suggested Readings -- Chapter Six: Methods and Application: Three Case Studies in Ethical Dilemmas -- Case One: Local Activism in West Africa -- Advocacy, Representation, and Voice -- Method and Advocacy -- Case Two: Secrets of Sexuality and Personal Narrative -- Trust, Confidentiality, and Informed Consent -- Method and Confidentiality -- Case Three: Community Theatre: Conflicts and Organization -- Fairness, Critical Judgment, and Policy Implications -- Method and Criticism -- Warm-Ups -- Suggested Readings -- Chapter Seven: Performance Ethnography -- Foundational Concepts in Performance and Social Theory -- Performance as Experience -- Performance as Social Behavior -- Performance as Language and Identity -- Note: Derrida and Deconstruction -- Performativity -- The Performance Interventions of Dwight Conquergood -- Process and Performance -- The Body and Scriptocentrism -- Dialogic Performance -- Cultural Politics -- Staging Ethnography and the Performance of Possibilities -- The Subjects -- The Audience -- The Performers -- Warm-Ups -- Suggested Readings -- Chapter Eight: It?s Time to WRITE: Writing as Performance -- Getting Started: In Search of the Muse -- Research Questions and Statement of Purpose -- The Muse Map and the Road Map -- Schedules and Time Management -- First Draft and Free Writing -- The Anxiety of Writing: Wild Mind and Monkey Mind -- Continents, Islands, and the Editor -- Writing as Performance and Performance as Writing -- Performative Writing as Relational -- Performative Writing as Evocative -- Performative Writing as Embodied -- Performative Writing as Consequential -- Warm-Ups -- Suggested Readings -- Chapter Nine: The Case Studies -- Case One: Staging Cultural Performance -- Case Two: Oral History and Performance -- Case Three: The Fieldwork of Social Drama and Communitas -- Warm-Ups -- Suggested Readings -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
• Sommario/riassunto: Whilst exploring the ethics of ethnography, this book illustrates the relevance of performance ethnography across disciplinary boundaries, exploring links between theory & method, various theoretical concepts & a number of methodological techniques.
• Titolo autorizzato: Critical ethnography
• ISBN: 0-7619-2915-0; 1-322-41915-9; 1-4522-6721-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154646703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II