Paulo and the Birds: Towards a Magical Realist Approach to Ethnography |
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| Authors: | Michaela Django Weinberg |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Communication , University of California , San Diego, USA mdwalsh@ucsd.edu |
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| Abstract: | This article explores how magical realism can be used as an analytic to study culture. I propose a magical realist epistemology that seeks to dismantle binaristic impulses by allowing for competing notions of reality to co-exist. This displacement of Western notions of “truth” compels Western ethnographers and their readers to imagine an alternative world where the magical and the mundane are mutually sustaining. |
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