Critical Ethnography (eBook)

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 • Introduction to Critical Ethnography: Theory and Method
Defining Terms: What Is the Critical in Critical Ethnography?
Dialogue: Virtues and Challenges
The Method and Theory Nexus
Key Terms
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Chapter 2 • Methods: “Do I Really Need a Method?” A Method . . . or Deep Hanging Out?
“Who Am I?” Starting Where You Are
“Who Else Has Written About My Topic?” Being a Part of an Interpretive Community
The Power of Purpose: Bracketing Your Subject
Preparing for the Field: The Research Design and Lay Summary
The Interview
Formulating Questions
Questions to Get Started: Experience, Opinions, Feelings, and the Senses
Creativity, Questions, and Three Favorites
Memory and the Oral History Interview
Rapport: How and What Is This Between Us?
Coding and Logging Data
A Biomimetics of Ethnography
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Chapter 3 • Three Stories: Case Studies in Critical Ethnography
Case 1: Local Activism in West Africa
Case 2: Secrets, Sexuality, and Oral History
Case 3: Community Theatre: Conflicts and Organization
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Chapter 4 • Ethics
Ethics Is . . .
Ethics, Faith, and Environmental Activism
The Question of Freedom
Maria Lugones: Contemporary Ethics, Ethnography, and Loving Perception
Summary
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Chapter 5 • Methods and Application: Three Case Studies in Ethical Dilemmas
Case 1: Local Activism in West Africa
Case 2: Secrets, Sexuality, and Oral History
Case 3: Community Theatre: Conflicts and Organization
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Chapter 6 • Performance and Performed Ethnography
Foundational Concepts in Performance and Social Theory
Utopian Performatives
The Performance Interventions of Dwight Conquergood
Staging Ethnography as Performed Ethnography
Autoethnography and/or Reflexive Ethnography
Autoethnography in Performance as Critical Reflections
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Chapter 7 • It’s Time to Write: Writing as Performance
Getting Started: In Search of the Muse
The Anxiety of Writing: Wild Mind and Monkey Mind
Writing as Performance and Performance as Writing
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Chapter 8 • The Case Studies
Case 1: Staging Cultural Performance
Case 2: Oral History and Performance
Case 3: Fieldwork and Social Drama
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References
Index
About the Author