Field notes and reading notes: studying with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett in the 1990s

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Autor(a) principal: Dias, N.
Data de Publicação: 2019
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/20266
Resumo: In this article, I reflect on the experience of attending Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett’s class Performance Studies Issues and Methods at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in the 1990s. Recalling the classes and field trips to events and sites in New York City, and the emphasis that she placed on reading texts and taking field notes, I consider the lessons I learned for performance studies, anthropology, and museums, and also for teaching, research, and scholarship in general. Why did this practice of taking notes from the field, from books in particular, and the note-taking practice in general, play such a central role in Kirshenblatt-Gimblett’s teaching? The steady and consistent focus both on theory and on the observation of social practices was a means of opening up new spaces for theoretical analysis or for a “performed theory,” to use Kirshenblatt-Gimblett’s term.
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title Field notes and reading notes: studying with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett in the 1990s
spellingShingle Field notes and reading notes: studying with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett in the 1990s
Dias, N.
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Field notes
Fieldwork museums
Performance studies
Reading
Teaching
title_short Field notes and reading notes: studying with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett in the 1990s
title_full Field notes and reading notes: studying with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett in the 1990s
title_fullStr Field notes and reading notes: studying with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett in the 1990s
title_full_unstemmed Field notes and reading notes: studying with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett in the 1990s
title_sort Field notes and reading notes: studying with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett in the 1990s
author Dias, N.
author_facet Dias, N.
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Dias, N.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Field notes
Fieldwork museums
Performance studies
Reading
Teaching
topic Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Field notes
Fieldwork museums
Performance studies
Reading
Teaching
description In this article, I reflect on the experience of attending Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett’s class Performance Studies Issues and Methods at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in the 1990s. Recalling the classes and field trips to events and sites in New York City, and the emphasis that she placed on reading texts and taking field notes, I consider the lessons I learned for performance studies, anthropology, and museums, and also for teaching, research, and scholarship in general. Why did this practice of taking notes from the field, from books in particular, and the note-taking practice in general, play such a central role in Kirshenblatt-Gimblett’s teaching? The steady and consistent focus both on theory and on the observation of social practices was a means of opening up new spaces for theoretical analysis or for a “performed theory,” to use Kirshenblatt-Gimblett’s term.
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