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This ethnographic play and supporting commentary contribute to the development of disability anthropology, and to a conversation about the use of performance methodologies in anthropology and ethnographic research.
List of contents
About This Book
Foreword
Play Script
Cast of Characters
Setting
Time
Portrait I: Vera
Portrait II: Vakas
Portrait III: Alina
Portrait IV: Sergei
Portrait V: Rudak
Portrait VI: Anya
Photos
Ethnographer’s Essay: Rituals of Vulnerability
Introduction
Background
a. Words for Disability
b. Disability in Russia
c. Defining Performance Ethnography
d. Performance Ethnography and/in Anthropology
Staging Disability: Interdependency and Crip Time
Making I Was Never Alone or Oporniki: Origins and Writing Process
Representing Russia on the North American Stage
Making I Was Never Alone or Oporniki: Casting and Rehearsing Access: Disability Theatre in Practice
Conclusion
Afterword
Appendix 1: Performance Ethnography Exercises
Appendix 2: Disability Terminology
Appendix 3: Russian and Soviet Historical References
Appendix 4: Suggestions for Reading this Work in the Classroom
Appendix 5: Prop List and Dramaturgical Note
Appendix 6: An Ethic of Accommodation
Appendix 7: Glossary and Pronunciation of Russian Words
About the author
Cassandra Hartblay is an assistant professor of Anthropology and Health Humanities at the University of Toronto, Scarborough.
Summary
This ethnographic play and supporting commentary contribute to the development of disability anthropology, and to a conversation about the use of performance methodologies in anthropology and ethnographic research.
