Auto-Ethnography of Engagement Through Dance

Vionnet, Claire (2022). Auto-Ethnography of Engagement Through Dance. Tsantsa – Journal of the Swiss Anthropological Association, 27, pp. 78-93. Seismo 10.36950/tsantsa.2022.27.7770

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This paper proposes a reflection on collaboration through dance. Drawing on ten years of fieldwork within the Swiss contemporary dance scene, the author, an anthropologist, dance scholar, and dancer, discusses her ethnographic practice, method, and writing inspired by collaborative anthropology. The first part of the paper advocates for dance as a practice-based research method, and for auto-ethnography to convey anthropological knowledge in a more accessible way. Research-creation is claimed to particularly suit sensorial topics, tending toward symmetrical relationships between anthropologists and fieldwork interlocutors. Drawing on an applied anthropological project using djembe dances for better social cohesion, the second part of the paper shows one possible engagement with society through dance practice. Generating intimacy and misconceptions, the project Kunda emphasizes how dance can become a laboratory to learn and negotiate intercultural differences

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Other Institutions > Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBKolleg) > Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Network (IRN)

UniBE Contributor:

Vionnet, Claire

Subjects:

100 Philosophy
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology

ISSN:

2673-5377

Publisher:

Seismo

Funders:

[4] Swiss National Science Foundation

Projects:

Projects 0 not found.

Language:

English

Submitter:

Claire Vionnet

Date Deposited:

21 Nov 2022 07:28

Last Modified:

07 Jan 2024 12:40

Publisher DOI:

10.36950/tsantsa.2022.27.7770

Uncontrolled Keywords:

autoethnography, contemporary dance, practice-based research, djembe dances, social engagement, structural racism

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/174937

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/174937

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