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Doing multimodal ethnography in pandemic times. Drags in da’ house, a case study in collaborative research in Brazil

Posted on August 14, 2020 Posted By: ICF FRI Categories: Events DC

Online (Zoom), August 14, 2020, 18.00-20.00 (Romanian time, in English)

The COVID-19 outbreak has forced us all to stay at home or to keep distance from one another, and it has impacted most of what we are used to call `reality.` For social scientists, this represents a huge challenge, as our work is mostly based on building closeness in our relationships in the field. Drawing from multimodality as a collaborative, reflexive, and technologically aware paradigm of investigation, this webinar presents some methodological approaches in order to deal with distance through the use of creative technologies. By presenting an ongoing film project about three drag queen artists from São Paulo, we discuss a collaborative method based on video diaries and homemade performances.

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ICF Team RO
Mihai Leaha
Ph.D. Candidate Paula Bessa Braz
Paula Bessa Braz is an anthropologist and PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology at Universidade de São Paulo (USP), in Brazil. Dedicated to the study of musical cultures in urban settings, she is part of the research group “Local Musicking: new pathways to ethnomusicology”, coordinated by Suzel Reily, supported by FAPESP, Funding Agency of the State of São Paulo. She is also a part of the group Pesquisa em Antropologia e Música, attatched to Laboratório de Imagem e Som em Antropologia (LISA). For her Masters, Paula engaged in research about teaching and learning processes and identity building through musical discourse and the playing habits among children of a family in the outskirts of a violent city in Brazil. As a product of the research, in addition to the written ethnography, Paula also developed a filmic ethnography, where the aspects of the sensible and sensitive music making of the family are addressed with a sensorial take, revealing the atmosphere of intimacy, closeness and harshness that is built by their musicking and within their surroundings.

Departments/units: Summer School 2020; Educational Programs Department; Research Department, Policy and Outreach Department, Young Researchers Club

Regions: Global, Latin America

Topics: Research Methods, Visual Anthropology

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