Full Description
Playing with the relation between truth and representation in the stories we tell as ethnographers and theater makers, this book contributes to the current debates around experimental research methodologies and ethnographically grounded theatrical forms. It departs from other studies by proposing a unique and accessible methodology that brings together theatrical devising practices and anthropology.
Through its theoretical exploration and performative script, the book bridges the relation between ethnographic writing and performativity, and simultaneously troubles conventional narrative practices in theater and anthropology. The practice described in the book, Affect Theater, also emphasizes embodied and affective approaches to empirical research and defines a process for rendering this type of material into imaginative academic writing, collaborative performance, and other inventive forms, applicable across a range of academic disciplines.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part I
1. Affect Theater: A Collaboration between Theatre and Anthropology
Association #1: How to Read the Following Performative Text
2. Unstories: A Performative Text
Association #2: Post Scriptum: Translating Performance into Text
Part II
3. Minor Stories: On Movement and Borders
4. Scenes of Loss and Arrival: The Associative Force of Objects
Association #3: A Hole in the Fence
5. Ways of Drawing: Beyond "Refugee Crisis"
Association #4: What's in a List: The Affect of the Archive
Part III
6. The Trouble with Storytelling: Representing the Real
Reverberations from Collaborators
7. Tools for Teaching and Practice
References
Index
