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Mimetic Inquiry: Ethnography, Creative Analysis, and Digital Tools
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 47, Number 1, 2014
- pp. 86-87
- Article
- Additional Information
Over the past three years, the author has pursued a method for developing interpretive exhibit materials that synthesizes ethnographic approaches, critical analysis, and creative practice. The term “mimetic inquiry” is used to describe this method, drawing on articulations of mimesis as a "thematic concept" that tracks through the history of aesthetics as a process of representation-with-transformation. The author also discusses the genesis and goals of mimetic inquiry.