Imagined Palestines : Scenography as Ethnography
The article is based on the conviction that literature can be as anthropological as anthropology can be literary. Through a scenographic style of writing, the author proposes an autocritical and autoreflexive review of a previous text, her master’s thesis in which she studied questions of identity in contemporary Palestinian music. The author exposes through a serious of short scenes issues of deterritorialization, hybride identities and violence in anthropological research, using Palestine as the setting at the centre of multiple intersecting imaginations.