Paulo and the Birds: Towards a Magical Realist Approach to Ethnography

Author: Weinberg, Michaela Django1

Source: The Communication Review, Volume 11, Number 4, October 2008 , pp. 346-369(24)

Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd

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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.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/10714420802511226

Affiliations: 1: Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego, USA

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