The self as other: Creating the role of Joni the ethnographer forbroken circles
- 1 April 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Text and Performance Quarterly
- Vol. 16 (2) , 131-145
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10462939609366140
Abstract
Contemporary discussions of ethnographic research often draw attention to psychological and ethical problems centering on the observing ethnographer. Performance can be a valuable method for working through these problems. This essay describes the ways one performance helped me as an ethnographer work through such problems as objectivity, the marginalizing of the self, and the appropriation of another culture. In particular, it emphasizes how performance led to a more sophisticated understanding of myself as an African American, an academic, and a woman.Keywords
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