"This anthology offers a range of approaches in the bringing together of performance and ethnography. It goes beyond the normal 'case study' approach to consider how the interaction of disciplines and the bringing together of different scholarly genealogies enables the posing of new research questions and the setting of research agenda. It offers a useful meditation on how historically performance ethnography has been stratified across folklore studies, performance studies and the various anthropological approaches to the performing arts (including ethnomusicology) and how these different approaches to understanding performance as social process might be usefully merged or selectively combined. It will be particularly important, I believe, for those new to the field of performance ethnography (including students), who are interested in models for how to study performance as these unfold in the field. Individual chapters also contain much new research that will be of great interest to specialists. I heartily recommend this volume."– Matthew Isaac Cohen, Professor of International Theatre, Royal Holloway, University of London"This is an interesting collection of seven essays that stem from an international conference on Performance Ethnography at the University of Chester in 2012. They present a fresh and useful contribution to ethnographic theory from a multiplicity of perspectives and will particularly appeal to those working in and across performance studies, anthropology, dance studies, and folklore studies. … The essays will undoubtedly assist in stimulating discussion at final year and graduate level as well as providing new historiographical perspectives on the development of performance studies outside the United States. At the same time, dialogue is maintained with theoretical perspectives and seminal work in the development of North American Performance Studies. This volume should sit well alongside other collections that examine Performance Ethnography, offering distinctive critical views on its achievements and potential."– Theresa Buckland, Professor of Performing Arts, De Montfort University'The collection is short, as is each essay, so Performance and Ethnography cannot be considered comprehensive or discipline-changing. However, it does nicely document some important and positive changes occurring in the discipline, and it adds to our knowledge and appreciation of performance and the arts in anthropology, which are hardly neglected but also are not sufficiently respected. Readers should find some theoretical and methodological ideas that will enhance their own fieldwork and writing.' - Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review Database