Performance Ethnography

Norman K. Denzin is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. One of the world's foremost authorities on qualitative research and cultural criticism, he is the author or editor of more than 30 books, including The Qualitative Manifesto; Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire; Reading Race; Interpretive Ethnography; The Cinematic Society; The Alcoholic Self; and a trilogy on the American West. He is past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, co-editor of six editions of the landmark SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, co-editor (with Michael D. Giardina) of 18 books on qualitative inquiry, co-editor (with Yvonna S. Lincoln and Michael D. Giardina) of the methods journal Qualitative Inquiry, founding editor of Cultural Studies?Critical Methodologies and International Review of Qualitative Research, editor of four book series, and founding director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.

Acknowledgements Preface PART 1: PERFORMANCE ETHNOGRAPHY Chapter 1: The Call to Performance Chapter 2: The Language of Performance Chapter 3: The Cinematic Society and the Reflexive Interview Chapter 4: Toward a Performative Social Science Chapter 5: Reading and Writing Performance PART 2: PERFORMANCE TEXTS: BONE DEEP IN LANDSCAPES Chapter 6: Two-Stepping in the '90s Chapter 7: Mother and Mickey Chapter 8: Performing Montana Chapter 9: Rock Creek History Chapter 10: Cowboys and Indians Chapter 11: Redskins and Chiefs Chapter 12: Searching for Yellowstone PART 3: PEDAGOGY, POLITICS AND ETHICS Chapter 13: Critical Performance Pedagogy Chapter 14: Performance Ethics Bibliography Index About the Author - `