The stigmatized vernacular : where reflexivity meets untellability /

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Imprint:Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2016.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Encounters (Bloomington, Ind.)
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11757253
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Other authors / contributors:Goldstein, Diane E., editor.
Shuman, Amy, 1951- editor.
ISBN:9780253024435
0253024439
9780253024404
0253024404
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:As part of this multilayered conversation about stigma, this volume discusses the relationship between the stigmatized individual and our role as researchers. Here we address our own perspectives as researchers struggling with stigma issues and tellability, as well as scholarly reflexive concerns dealing with what can't be said when working with stigmatized groups or topics. The disciplinary focus of folklore positions us well to concentrate on the vernacular experience of the stigmatized, but it also propels us toward analysis of the performance of stigma, the process of stigmatization, and the political representation of stigmatized populations. These perspectives come to the fore in this book, as does the multilayered nature of stigma - its ability to reproduce, overlap, and spread, not just in terms of replication but also in terms of the ethnographer's ability to apprehend it and her ability to research and write about it.
Other form:Print version: Stigmatized vernacular. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2016 9780253024404