An Epistemology of Play

Provocation, Pleasure, Participation and Performance in Ethnographic Fieldwork and Film-making

Bibliographic Data

ID2614616
AuthorsJohannes Sjöberg (0000-0002-2817-1034, University of Manchester, corresponding author)
Year1969
Volume60
Issue2
Pages403-412
Publication date1969-12-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropologica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0254-9212 • E-ISSN: 2224-6428
PublisherUniversity of Victoria Libraries (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/anth.2018-0061
OpenAlexW2904273172
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited20

Drawing on previous and ongoing research on ethnofiction films, this article suggests new perspectives on ethnographic fieldwork and film-making, where play stands at the centre of the epistemology. Projective improvisation in ethnofiction shares common denominators with play and especially role play, in which provocation, pleasure and flow motivate the performance. The article presents co-creative role play as a valid ethnographic method, based on the assumption that mimicry gives access to the implicit information of the play world, making it explicit through a reflexive approach

Aesthetics · Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Ethnography · Improvisation · Mimicry · Pleasure · Provocation test · Reflexivity · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Art Education and Development · Medicine · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies

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