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Cultural Struggles : Performance, Ethnography, Praxis /

The late author's research has inspired a generation of scholars invested in performance as a meaningful paradigm to understand human interaction, especially between structures of power and the disenfranchised. Conquergood's research laid the groundwork for others to engage issues of ethic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Conquergood, Lorne Dwight, 1949-2004 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : "Opening and interpreting lives" / E. Patrick Johnson
  • Performance. Performing cultures : ethnography, epistemology, and ethics ; Of caravans and carnivals : performance studies in motion ; Performance studies : interventions and radical research ; Beyond the text : toward a performative cultural politics
  • Ethnography. Performing as a moral act : ethical dimensions of the ethnography of performance ; Rethinking ethnography : towards a critical cultural politics ; Rethinking elocution : the trope of the talking book and other figures of speech
  • Praxis. Health theatre in a Hmong refugee camp : performance, communication, and culture ; Life in Big Red : struggles and accommodations in a Chicago polyethnic tenement ; Homeboys and hoods : gang communication and cultural space ; Lethal theatre : performance, punishment, and the death penalty
  • Critical responses. Dwight Conquergood and performative political economy / Micaela di Leonardo ; Response-ability, vulnerability, and other(s') bodies / Judith Hamera ; Caravans continued : in memory of Dwight Conquergood / Shannon Jackson ; "Is Dwight, white?!" or Black transgressions and the preeminent performance of whiteness / D. Soyini Madison ; "Soundscapes of power" : attending to orality, communicating class, and hearing the humor in Dwight Conquergood's "voice" / Lisa Merrill ; Performance into policy / Della Pollock ; Eloquence and vocation : Dwight's calling / Joseph Roach.