Performance Ethnography

Norman K. Denzin was Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. One of the world’s foremost authorities on qualitative research and cultural criticism, he was the author or editor of more than 30 books, including The Qualitative Manifesto; Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire; Reading Race; Interpretive Ethnography; The Cinematic Society; The Alcoholic Self; and a trilogy on the American West. He was past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, co-editor of six editions of the landmark SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, co-editor (with Michael D. Giardina) of 18 books on qualitative inquiry, co-editor (with Yvonna S. Lincoln and Michael D. Giardina) of the methods journal Qualitative Inquiry, founding editor of Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies and International Review of Qualitative Research, editor of four book series, and founding director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.

• AcknowledgementsPrefacePART 1: PERFORMANCE ETHNOGRAPHYChapter 1: The Call to PerformanceChapter 2: The Language of PerformanceChapter 3: The Cinematic Society and the Reflexive InterviewChapter 4: Toward a Performative Social ScienceChapter 5: Reading and Writing PerformancePART 2: PERFORMANCE TEXTS: BONE DEEP IN LANDSCAPESChapter 6: Two-Stepping in the ′90sChapter 7: Mother and MickeyChapter 8: Performing MontanaChapter 9: Rock Creek HistoryChapter 10: Cowboys and IndiansChapter 11: Redskins and ChiefsChapter 12: Searching for YellowstonePART 3: PEDAGOGY, POLITICS AND ETHICSChapter 13: Critical Performance PedagogyChapter 14: Performance EthicsBibliographyIndexAbout the Author - `

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