Affect Ethnography: Exploring Performance and Narrative in the Creation of Unstories - Softcover

Giordano, Cristiana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350374857 ISBN 13: 9781350374850

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Authors

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350374857
• ISBN 13: 9781350374850
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 316