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What are the three parts to Anna Deavere Smith's method of performance/incorporation? |
1. Poetic Moment |
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What does Anna Deavere Smith define as a "poetic moment"? |
a moment in which their passion, anger, or hurt would surface. Anyone is capable of this given enough time. |
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What does Anna Deavere Smith define "perspective-taking" as? |
After identifying the poetic moment, you repeat the words or phrases over and over until they become second nature. |
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What does Anna Deavere Smith define "embodiment" as? |
presenting these words back to that individual as though they were your own. |
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Define Participatory Epistemology: |
A participatory approach to knowledge. |
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Frederick Douglass argued... |
"...that one could not experience the ills of slavery while sitting in a reading chair." |
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What are the 3 key questions that Frederick Douglass brought up concering participatory epistemology? |
1. Do we know any of these individuals on a personal level? 3. Have we attempted to gain access to them without allowing them access to us? |
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What is the key quote to the middle passage example on the handout? |
"it hurts too much to have hope" Melvita |
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What is Gerald Egan's definition of listening? |
"Total listening is more than attending to another person's words. It is also listening to the meanings that are buried in the words and between the words and in the silences of communication" |
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What is Milan Kundera's definition of the self? |
"What is the self? It is the sum of EVERYTHING THAT WE REMEMBER" |
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What is Maria Lugones definition of 'world-traveling'? |
"...that I see with her eyes, that i go into my mother's world...that I witness her own sense of herself from within her own world |
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What is the biblical precedent for world-traveling? |
The incarnation. |
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What is Antonio Gramsci's intellectual error? |
"believing that one can know without understanding and even more without feeling" |
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What term is Victor Turner associated with? |
Homo performans |
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What is Victor Turner's quote? |
"Humans, are defined by their participation in rituals, social drama, and improvisational, creative performances in DAILY LIFE" |
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What is Irving Goffman's dramaturgical model? |
A. Actors, stage, audience. |
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Define actors, stage, and audience: |
Actors: two individuals communicating with an audience present. |
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Define roles and frames: |
Roles: The roles people take in interaction are performances that are strategically crafted to project particular images to others, the audience. Frames: Frames: are models we rely on to make sense of experience. We rely on frames to ESTABLISH definitions of situations for others and ourselves. There are our SCRIPTS. |
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Plainly put roles are ________, while frames are _______. |
Broad, and specific. |
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What are the two types of impressions we give to each other and define them? |
Impressions we give: the elements of our self-presentation that we control. ex: certain words or gestures |
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What is the definition of the situation? |
1. Beliefs I have about myself. |
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Define front stage and back stage: |
Front stage: is what is visible to the audience. |
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Does the back stage definitively exist? |
No, Goffman argued that there is always a front stage; we may just be acting for ourselves. But, we are still acting. |
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What is the definition of Ethnography (word for word)? |
"method of interpreting actions in a manner that generates understanding in the terms of those performing the actions" |
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What is a thin and thick description? |
Thin: give a shallow description of a phenomenon from the perspective of the observer. |
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What is old school ethnography? |
Old school ethnography: Researcher objectively observed a group or culture by remaining detached or impartial from those they were observing. |
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What is new school ethnography? |
New school: the researcher is intimately involved with the people that they are researching; they believe that the only way to know something about that group is to live like/with that group. |
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Quotes about new school ethnography: |
Henry Glassie: insists that "ethnography is interaction, collaboration" |
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Define a participant-observation: |
"By being not only an observer but also an active participant in a culture and sometimes even an activist on behalf of that culture" |
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Under performance paradigm, who was the key theologian that was opposed and why? |
St. Augustine |
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Under performance paradigm, who was the key philosopher that was opposed and why? |
Renee Descartes |
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What is the key term of the performance paradigm? |
Participative Experience |
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What are the three parts of the performance paradigm? |
1. Process |
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Define process as part of the performance paradigm: |
"understanding is achieved, not just expressed, through action" |
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Define embodiment as part of the performance paradigm: |
"commitment to embodiment, experiential understanding, participatory ways of knowing, sensuous engagement, and intimate encounter instead of detached observation and action at a distance" Conquergood |
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What is the key concept under embodiment? |
Responsible Listeners |
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Define responsible listeners according to Wood: |
"being responsible to a story requires us to do more than treat it as merely cognitive content to be analyzed critically. We--whether tellers or listeners---must try to live with the story..." -We must own our responses, whether good or bad. |
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Define dialogue as part of the performance paradigm: |
Dialogical Performance creates a space where self and the other not only empathize, but interrogate each other. |
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What are the two key concepts under dialogue? |
"Skeptic's copout": |