03900nam a22005175i 4500 978-3-031-77306-8 DE-He213 20251030114919.0 cr nn 008mamaa 250103s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031773068 978-3-031-77306-8 10.1007/978-3-031-77306-8 doi GN301-674 JHMC bicssc SOC002000 bisacsh JHMC thema Papachristophorou, Marilena. author. (orcid)0009-0008-4095-8607 https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4095-8607 aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 90123 Performing Self in Ethnographic Fieldwork [electronic resource] / by Marilena Papachristophorou. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XVII, 146 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1. Instead of an Introduction: The Ethnographer, the Listener, the Performer—Three Roles in One Attribute -- 2. Starting with Experiencing: Towards an Intermediate Identity -- 3. Uninvited Guest -- 4. Familiarity in Progress -- 5. Back to Normality, De-familiarisation Anew -- 6. Beyond the Method, the Method, Again -- 7. Sustaining an Open Debate -- 8. Postface: Embodying Knowledge. This provocative book presents a methodological proposal for teaching ethnographic fieldwork, applying interdisciplinary tools inspired from performance theory, acting, experiential anthropology and existential psychotherapy. At the same time, it constitutes a theoretical and methodological trajectory mapping the history of ethnographic fieldwork through highly characteristic moments along with the author's own personal journey in the field in terms of a lifetime project. Starting from the assumption that ethnographic fieldwork constitutes a deeply human experience, the book proposes a step further towards the performative dimension of an ethnographic condition inspired by the Stanislavski method, which in practice complements performance theory issues: it is argued that participant observation offers an intermediate identity for the ethnographer through a conscious management of the social "role" dictated by their research participants; this ethnographic mediation of the Self may also have psychotherapeutic effects, mainly through conscious management of self-diversity and reflexivity in ethnographic writing. Ethnographic fieldwork is thus highlighted as a performative stage and a field of deep transformations for the ethnographer’s identity. Marilena Papachristophorou is Professor of Social Anthropology and Folklore Studies at the University of Ioannina, Greece, formerly Researcher at the Hellenic Folklore Research Centre of the Academy of Athens. She studied French and Comparative Literature in Sorbonne, Social Anthropology and Ethnology at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, France. She publishes in Greek, French and English. Ethnology. 58687 Performing arts. 67607 Theater. 66691 Ethnography. 70800 Practice-as-Research. 86457 Ethnology. 58687 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031773051 Printed edition: 9783031773075 Printed edition: 9783031773082 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-77306-8 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 66327 66327