A collaborative methodology between photography and performance in ethnographically informed research

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ID11417613
AuthorsCarla Hamer (Middlesex University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume30
Issue3
Pages341-356
Publication date2016-05-03
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Arts (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0256-0046 • E-ISSN: 1992-6049
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02560046.2016.1205321
OpenAlexW2513927809
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited30

This article starts from the discussions in Writing culture that provided a new perspective on ethnographic writing. The author acknowledges that there has been a proliferation of ‘sensory’ approaches in the social sciences and ethnography, and ‘ethnographic’ projects in the arts. The article explores some of the critiques that both perspectives (art and ethnography) received because of the blurred distinction between their respective methodologies and the privileging of experience over interpretation in their claims to ‘truth’. The author engages in this discussion by reconsidering the relationship between photography and ‘reality’ and repositions the role of the photographer-researcher as co-creator of ethnographic knowledge. By focusing on the study of a Danish micro-community in Argentina, she explores the possibilities and challenges of performative photography as a (collaborative) ethnographic methodology. The author discusses the critical and experimental possibilities of a performative photographic approach in ethnographically informed research, and reflects on a collaborative project that involved staged photography and dance

Aesthetics · Art · Ethnography · Interpretation (philosophy · Performative utterance · Perspective (graphical · Photography · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy

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