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Examines the concept of performance in ethnographic studies, focusing on the issues surrounding the performances of race, and cultural and environmental identities. It considers interaction theory, and re-examines the spectatorial gaze in fictional approaches to the portrayal of the past.
List of contents
David Maines (Special Partial Issue): Symbolic interaction and communication - NCA spotlight on the contributions of David R. Maines, (A.P. Bochner, Shing-Ling S. Chen); The idea of structure and communication in David Maines' work. (B.E. Gronbeck); The Maines-stream - a pragmatist perspective on social organization and policy production, (P.M. Hall); Framing norms - the culture of expectations and explanations, (G.A. Fine); Telling stories of David R. Maines: an admiring friend's sampler, (W.K. Rawlins); Musing and thrashing around at the intersection of symbolic interactionism and communication studies, (D.R. Maines). Race, Culture and Identity: Identity, displacement, and memory, (D. Cotanda); The Sid Cartwright incident - an African American male's interpretive narrative of interracial encounters at the University of Chicago, (R. Buford-May). Identity, TV, and cultural critique, (J. Pierce). Biracial lived experience - from encapsulated to constructive self, (M. Hardesty). Ethnographic Performances: Salt fever - an ethnographic narrative in four sections, (A. Fontana); Absence as presence, (L. Richardson); Hurricanes - a narrative of conflict cycles in a distressed marriage, (E. Foster); Feeling the field - tracking shifts in ethnographic research, (P.R. Ibarra, M. Kusenbach); Stockyards boyhood, (N. Wiley). Interpretive Developments: The greening of identity - three environmental paths, (S. Gottschalk); On reconciling past and future - imaginary conversations as actual negotiations, (R. Hewitt); Revisiting the spectatorial gaze in film, (E. Tseelon).
Summary
Examines the concept of performance in ethnographic studies, focusing on the issues surrounding the performances of race, and cultural and environmental identities. It considers interaction theory, and re-examines the spectatorial gaze in fictional approaches to the portrayal of the past.
