Publications

Vidali, Debra. 2025 (ongoing). 
chronicles between dog and wolf
Anthropology Theater Lab blog. 

Vidali, Debra. 2025.
WeightAllegra Lab.
A meditation on knowledge, relations, and responsibilities via the reverberating agency and transmutations of a gift. Connecting to neighbors in the Seneca (Onöndowa’ga:’) Nation, the essay foregrounds the human impacts of Indigenous dispossession, our complex layers of connection, and the power of collaborative physical theater creation techniques.

Vidali, Debra Spitulnik. 2025.
Multimodal Craft, Epistemological Stakes, and Transduction PedagogyFieldsights.

Vidali, Debra. 2023.
Craftwork in Ethnographic Theater Making.
The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance, eds. L. Miller and D. Syring, 423-440. New York: Routledge.

Vidali, Debra. 2020.
Ethnographic Theater Making: Multimodal Alchemy, Knowledge, and Invention
American Anthropologist 122(2):394-409.

Vidali, Debra. 2016. 
Multisensorial Anthropology: A Retrofit Cracking Open of the Field.
American Anthropologist 118(2):395-400. 

Vidali, Debra. 2015. 
A Language for Re-Generation: Boundary Crossing and Re-Formation at the Intersection of Media Ethnography and TheatreMedia, Anthropology and Public Engagement, eds. S. Pink and S. Abram, 92-121. New York: Berghahn.

See also ORCiD and ResearchGate.

 

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