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Resounding Participatory Ethnography: Ethnographic Dialogue in Dialogue
Author(s) -
Panopoulos Panayotis,
Scaldaferri Nicola,
Feld Steven
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
visual anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.346
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1548-7458
pISSN - 1058-7187
DOI - 10.1111/var.12223
Subject(s) - dialogic , performative utterance , ethnography , active listening , sociology , scholarship , silence , opposition (politics) , citizen journalism , visual arts , media studies , aesthetics , anthropology , art , politics , communication , political science , pedagogy , law
This dialogue explores issues in contemporary sonic, sensory, and visual ethnography, including dialogic editing and collaborative projects between anthropology and art. It focuses on how the multimedia ethnography When the Trees Resound: Collaborative Media Research on an Italian Festival (2019) breaks the silence of earlier studies of an Italian community festival by emphasizing listening to multiple sounds and voices through field sound recordings and dialogic photographic imaging, writing, and editing. In doing so, a ritual of communal effort with roots in peasant labor, performative masculinity, and social opposition and protest becomes a site of experimental scholarship on participatory and performative ethnography.