Overview

This volume examines the concept of performance in ethnographic studies, with a special focus on the issues surrounding the performances of race, and cultural and environmental identities. A special partial section honours the contributions of David R. Maines to the field of communication studies. The concluding section considers new theoretical developments in interaction theory, including a re-examination of the spectatorial gaze in film and literary approaches to the imagined past.

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Author:   Norman K. Denzin
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   JAI Press Inc.
Volume:   24
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.642kg
ISBN:  

9780762307548

ISBN 10:   0762307544
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   12 February 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

David Maines (Special Partial Issue): Symbolic interaction and communication - NCA spotlight on the contributions of David R. Maines, (A.P. Bochner, Shing-Ling S. Chen); The idea of structure and communication in David Maines' work. (B.E. Gronbeck); The Maines-stream - a pragmatist perspective on social organization and policy production, (P.M. Hall); Framing norms - the culture of expectations and explanations, (G.A. Fine); Telling stories of David R. Maines: an admiring friend's sampler, (W.K. Rawlins); Musing and thrashing around at the intersection of symbolic interactionism and communication studies, (D.R. Maines). Race, Culture and Identity: Identity, displacement, and memory, (D. Cotanda); The Sid Cartwright incident - an African American male's interpretive narrative of interracial encounters at the University of Chicago, (R. Buford-May). Identity, TV, and cultural critique, (J. Pierce). Biracial lived experience - from encapsulated to constructive self, (M. Hardesty). Ethnographic Performances: Salt fever - an ethnographic narrative in four sections, (A. Fontana); Absence as presence, (L. Richardson); Hurricanes - a narrative of conflict cycles in a distressed marriage, (E. Foster); Feeling the field - tracking shifts in ethnographic research, (P.R. Ibarra, M. Kusenbach); Stockyards boyhood, (N. Wiley). Interpretive Developments: The greening of identity - three environmental paths, (S. Gottschalk); On reconciling past and future - imaginary conversations as actual negotiations, (R. Hewitt); Revisiting the spectatorial gaze in film, (E. Tseelon).

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