Affect Ethnography

Cristiana Giordano is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, USA.Greg Pierotti is Associate Professor of Dramaturgy and Collaborative Playmaking at the University of Arizona, USA.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsPrefacePart I1. Affect Theater: A Collaboration between Theatre and AnthropologyAssociation #1: How to Read the Following Performative Text2. Unstories: A Performative TextAssociation #2: Post Scriptum: Translating Performance into TextPart II3. Minor Stories: On Movement and Borders4. Scenes of Loss and Arrival: The Associative Force of ObjectsAssociation #3: A Hole in the Fence5. Ways of Drawing: Beyond “Refugee Crisis” Association #4: What's in a List: The Affect of the ArchivePart III6. The Trouble with Storytelling: Representing the Real Reverberations from Collaborators7. Tools for Teaching and PracticeReferencesIndex

In my own experience of research and teaching ethnography, there emerges in every fieldwork project a repository of creative ideas that lacks modes of sharing , validation., and implementation. Giordano and Pierotti, recognized artisans of this ethnographic craft in theater arts, now provide the much needed practice/technique bridge to excavate and implement these dramaturgical impulses embedded in every experience of ethnographic research. - George E. Marcus, author of Ethnography Through Thick and Thin, Director, Center for Ethnography, University of California