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Performance Ethnography: Methods, Politics, Approaches

Methods

12. Victor Turner, The Anthropology of Performance, 1986
13. Victor Turner, From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play, 1982
14. Victor Turner, Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society, 1974.
15. D. Soyini Madison, Critical Performance Ethnography: Method, Ethics, and Performance, 2006
16. Denzin, Norman K, Performance Ethnography : Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Culture, 1999

Models & Case Studies

17. Elizabeth McAlister, Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and its Diaspora, 2002
18. Catherine Cole, Ghana’s Concert Party Theatre, 2001
19. Michelle Kisliuk, Seize the Dance! BaAka Music and the Performance of Ethnography, 1998
20. Louise Meintjes, Sound of Africa! Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio, 2003
21. Fiona Buckland, Impossible Dance: Club Culture and Queer Worldmaking
22. Johannes Fabian, Power and Performance: Ethnographic Explorations through Proverbial Wisdom and Theatre in Shaba, Zaire, 1990

Articles:

23. Calzadilla, Fernando and George E. Marcus. In press. “Artists in the Field: Between Art and Anthropology”.
24. Conquergood, Dwight.
1. (1985). “Performing as a moral act: Ethical dimensions of the ethnography of performance” Literature in Performance, 5, 1-13.
2. (1989). “Poetics, play, process, and power: The performative turn in Anthropology”. Text and Performance Quarterly, 9,82-88.
3. (1991). “Rethinking Ethnography: Towards a Critical Cultural Politics”. Communication Monographs, 58, 179-194.
4. (1995). “Of caravans and carnivals: performance studies in motion”. The Drama Review, 39 (4) 137-141.
5. (2002). “Performance Studies: Interventions and Radical Research” The Drama Review (TDR), 46 (2), 145-156.

25. Johnson, E. Patrick.
1. (1998). “Feeling the Spirit in the Dark: Expanding Notions of the Sacred in the African American Gay Community,” 21 Callaloo, pp. 399-418
2. (2003). “Introduction: Blackness and Authenticity: What’s Performance Got to Do With It?” Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity. Duke University Press, pp. 1-17.
3. (2005). “‘Quare’ Studies, or (Almost) Everything I know about Queer Studies I learned from my Grandmother”. Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 124-160

26. Jones, Joni L.
1. (2002). “Performance Ethnography: The Role of Embodiment in Cultural Authenticity”. Theatre Topics 12.1 1-15.
2. (1997)."sista docta: Performance as a Critique of the Academy," The Drama Review (TDR) 41.2

27. Kisliuk, Michelle. 2002. “The poetics and politics of practice: experience, embodiment, and the engagement of scholarship”. Stucky, Nathan and Cynthia Wimmer, eds. Teaching Performance Studies, Southern Illinois University Press.

28. Sklar, Deirdre. "Can Bodylore Be Brought to Its Senses?" Journal of American Folklore 107, no. 423 (Winter 1994)
29. Spry, T. 2001. “Performing Autoethnography: An Embodied Methodological Praxis.” Qualitative Inquiry 7, no. 6: 706-32. 50, no. 1: 69-88(20).

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