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Cultural struggles: performance, ethnography, praxis
Lorne Dwight Conquergood and E. Patrick Johnson-
Frontmatter
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Introduction: "Opening and Interpreting Lives" (E. Patrick Johnson, page 1)
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I. PERFORMANCE
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Performing Cultures: Ethnography, Epistemology, and Ethics (page 15)
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Of Caravans and Carnivals: Performance Studies in Motion (page 26)
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Performance Studies: Interventions and Radical Research (page 32)
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Beyond the Text: Toward a Performative Cultural Politics (page 47)
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II. ETHNOGRAPHY
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Performing as a Moral Act: Ethical Dimensions of the Ethnography of Performance (page 65)
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Rethinking Ethnography: Towards a Critical Cultural Politics (page 81)
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Rethinking Elocution: The Trope of the Talking Book and Other Figures of Speech (page 104)
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III. PRAXIS
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Health Theatre in a Hmong Refugee Camp: Performance, Communication, and Culture (page 127)
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Life in Big Red: Struggles and Accomodations in a Chicago Polyethnic Tenement (page 170)
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Homeboys and Hoods: Gang Communication and Cultural Space (page 224)
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Lethal Theatre: Performance, Punishment, and the Death Penalty (page 264)
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IV. CRITICAL RESPONSES
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Dwight Conquergood and Performative Political Economy (Micaela di Leonardo, page 303)
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Response-ability, Vulnerability, and Other(s') Bodies (Judith Hamera, page 306)
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Caravans Continued: In Memory of Dwight Conquergood (Shannon Jackson, page 310)
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"Is Dwight, White?!" or Black Transgressions and the Preeminent Performance of Whiteness (D. Soyini Madison, page 314)
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"Soundscapes of Power": Attending to Orality, Communicating Class, and Hearing the Humor in Dwight Conquergood's "Voice" (Lisa Merrill, page 320)
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Performance into Policy (Della Pollock, page 324)
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Eloquence and Vocation: Dwight's Calling (Joseph Roach, page 328)
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Contributors (page 333)
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Index (page 335)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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DR | 59.1 (spring 2015): 181-183 | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/575991 |
TJ | 66.4 (December 2014): 646-647 | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/563994 |
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Published: c2013
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
- 9780472071951 (hardcover)
- 9780472029297 (ebook)
- 9780472051953 (paper)