The Aristocrats
As is sometimes the case, we must look outside the discipline to find ethnographic innovation: Need to 'reframe' Glassie's construct of 'interdependently variable and traditional' into a 'usable past'? The Aristocrats is one of the best ethnological monographs to come along in recent years, and nary a chair in sight. Seriously though, I found it to be a comprehensive and clear demonstration of structuralism, oral formulaic, historic geographic and —without a doubt— a little of the Psychoanalytical method folklore study. This film delineates "insider" and "outsider" status efficiently while remaining one of the more enjoyable examples of "artistic communication in small groups" I have ever seen.
You people should never let me teach.
You people should never let me teach.
posted by Butch Ross at 2:59 PM
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I haven't seen the Aristocrats but am very curious. I finally did some searching and learned what the "filthiest joke ever" is all about. Gotta say: you're right about the film's fitness as an example of (auto)ethnography.
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