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Publication Date: 2002
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Performance Ethnography: The Role of Embodiment in Cultural Authenticity.
Jones, Joni L.
Theatre Topics, v12 n1 p1-15 Mar 2002
Explores the successes and failures of the author's "Searching for Osun," a performance ethnography which charted a subjective and selective meditation on Nigeria. Explains important concepts of performance ethnography, such as: an idea of question which constitutes the context; the accountability of the ethnographer; subjectivity; multivocalty; audience participation; and the ethics of representation. Concludes that performance offers a new authenticity which audience members and performers construct together. (PM)
Descriptors: Accountability, Audience Response, Cultural Context, Drama, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Human Body, Theater Arts
Electronic version downloaded from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theatre topics/. Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press, Journals Publishing Division, P.O. Box 19966, Baltimore, Maryland 21211.
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Nigeria
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