Resounding Participatory Ethnography : Ethnographic Dialogue in Dialogue

This dialogue explores issues in contemporary sonic, sensory, and visual ethnography, including dialogic edit- ing and collaborative projects between anthropology and art. It focuses on how the multimedia ethnography When the Trees Resound: Collaborative Media Research on an Italian Festival (2019) breaks the silence of earlier studies of an Italian community festival by emphasizing listening to multiple sounds and voices through field sound recordings and dialogic photographic imaging, writing, and editing. In doing so, a ritual of communal effort with roots in peasant labor, performative masculinity, and social opposition and protest becomes a site of experimental scholarship on par- ticipatory and performative ethnography.