This article examines the potential of a transdisciplinary ethnographic approach that bridges ethnography, performance, storytelling, and imagination to contribute an activist research practice within anthropology other disciplines. It focuses on my current project studies, by means dramatic impact migration Polish Romani women’s experiences aging. In storytelling sessions, ethnographer interlocutor stepped into character co-performed fictional stories loosely based their own lives....

This introduction to the thematic section entitled “Ethnography, Performance and Imagination” explores performance as “imaginative ethnography” (Elliott Culhane 2017), a transdisciplinary, collaborative, embodied, critical engaged research practice that draws from anthropology creative arts. In particular, it focuses on performativity of (an event intentionally staged for an audience) employed both ethnographic process (fieldwork) mode representation. It asks: can help us better understand...

Drawing on trail anthropology and the notion of through line action, this article tracks feeling awkwardness I experienced in an imaginative ethnography project conducted collaboration with a Polish Romani woman, Randia, attempt to re-envision as engaged, collaborative interventionist practice. follow trail, its offshoots connections arrive at what call awkward anthropology, which entails radical epistemic politics. Reflecting how working intersections ethnography, performance, storytelling...

Abstract This essay discusses an ethnographic physical theatre project, Dance as I Play You, which studied racism in Poland and was developed collaboration with my students 2002. The contributes to performance-centered ethnography by examining the politicizing potential of employed a form research. Comparing pre-rehearsal focus group discussions rehearsal improvisations, argue that improvisations engaged participants more complex empathic explorations racism. Reflecting on project's two...

In Poland, the quality of life for Roma minorities has deteriorated in recent years due to negative stereotyping, economic crises and resurgent nationalisms. Consequently, many have migrated west since Poland's 2004 entry into EU. This left several communities populated primarily by elders unable travel abroad their advanced age and/or poor health. paper discusses author's current research project that studies Polish elderly women's experiences ageing absence younger relatives. particular,...

Book Review| January 01 2015 Romani Routes: Cultural Politics and Balkan Music in Diaspora Diaspora. By Carol Silverman. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. ix + 398, figures charts, acknowledgments, notes on transliteration, about the companion website, notes, references, index.). Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2015) 128 (507): 116–118. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.128.507.0116 Cite Icon...

MAGDALENA KAZUBOWSKI-HOUSTON uses the subjunctive practice of developing a dramatic script as means extending ethnographic interviewing into topics that Roma women might otherwise be less willing to speak about with an outside researcher.

Cette Introduction à la section thématique « Ethnographie, performance et imagination » explore comme ethnographie imaginative (Elliott Culhane 2017), c’est-à-dire pratique de recherche transdisciplinaire, collaborative, incarnée, critique engagée qui s’inspire l’anthropologie des arts créatifs. L’accent est mis en particulier sur performativité (un événement délibérément scène pour un public), employée fois processus ethnographique (travail terrain) mode représentation ethnographique. Les...