Speaking (Un)truth to Power

Fish Tales From the Ethnographic Front

Bibliographic Data

ID2280833
AuthorsPaul Falzone (University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume16
Issue1
Pages55-67
Publication date2008-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransforming Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1051-0559 • E-ISSN: 1548-7466
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-7466.2008.00006.x
OpenAlexW2036948391
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited18

This article represents ethnographic reflections on an activist/artistic enterprise. It transgresses the boundaries of method, ethics and civility to transcend the limitations of the “Ethnographic U Turn” in critical/cultural approaches. On one level, it is the ethnographic account of field research undertaken with a group of media pranksters known as the Yes Men. On quite another level, it is an indictment of ethnography's failure to live up to its radical democratic potential. Taken in its entirety, it is a performative provocation intended to offend the average reader and incite the uncommon one to acts of institutional mutiny and methodological (r)evolution

Aesthetics · Civility · Ethnography · Media studies · Mutiny · Performative utterance · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Anthropology · Law · Philosophy · Theatre and Performance Studies

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