TAPS 1281L - Critical/Performance Ethnography

Institution:

Brown University

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Description:

This course introduces students to key theories and methods of critical/performance ethnography. Because critical ethnography concerns the rhetorical, ethical, and political effects of what ethnographers do, performance is a fundamental dynamic in this seminar. We will explore performance as theory, method, event, and everyday occurrence. We will examine the interpenetrating relationships among performance, ethnography, economy, and culture. Since culture is made visible to us through its representations, e.g., its structures, dramas, symbols, metaphors, habits, everyday practices, landscapes, language patterns, etc., performance becomes a primary point of entry and inquiry where we may be/act, see/hear, feel/sense, and think/evaluate within an Other world and our own. The aim of this seminar then is to come to understand what is at stake in the practice of gathering and telling stories - the core of the ethnographer's trade.

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.brown.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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