Performance Ethnography

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This course will will explore, interrogate, and challenge the theoretical frameworks that define performance ethnography, along with the methodologies employed by researchers, artists, and practitioners (not mutually exclusive roles) under the umbrella of performance ethnography and ethnographic writing. However, not all of our interlocutors will define themselves as ethnographers or anthropologists nor their work as anthropological. Our task is to engage everything we encounter in our seminar through our ethnographic lens to determine what we find essential for our own research and writing investments - in and beyond the academy.