1983 Looking for Zora. In In Search of our Mothers` Gardens
... the basic similarity of narrative structure. Although their research problems, data collection, and writing style were distinctive, both texts are remarkably parallel in their organization. The geography of their ethnographic paths are so alike that it is logical to conjecture that Barton's book was ...
... the basic similarity of narrative structure. Although their research problems, data collection, and writing style were distinctive, both texts are remarkably parallel in their organization. The geography of their ethnographic paths are so alike that it is logical to conjecture that Barton's book was ...
Narrative and Experience: Telling Stories of Illness
... "emergent narratives" or "therapeutic emplotment." Mattingly creates a view of stories as "not told so much as acted, embodied, played, even danced" (Mattingly 2000: 181). In celtain occasions, Mattingly argues, "time itself takes on narrative shape." (Mattingly 2000: 181). While anthropologists lik ...
... "emergent narratives" or "therapeutic emplotment." Mattingly creates a view of stories as "not told so much as acted, embodied, played, even danced" (Mattingly 2000: 181). In celtain occasions, Mattingly argues, "time itself takes on narrative shape." (Mattingly 2000: 181). While anthropologists lik ...
Reading and Interpreting Ethnography
... understanding human phenomena that has its origins in linguistics, and in particular the approach developed by Ferdinand Saussure. Saussure was concerned with semiotics – how language comes to carry meaning. His observation was that the elements of language that carry meaning – words and letters – a ...
... understanding human phenomena that has its origins in linguistics, and in particular the approach developed by Ferdinand Saussure. Saussure was concerned with semiotics – how language comes to carry meaning. His observation was that the elements of language that carry meaning – words and letters – a ...
Ethnographic fieldwork - The Political Studies Association
... representations that are fitted to the specifics of a complex situation (Denzin and Lincoln 2011: 4). However, the bricoleur also has a set of tools, so the questions stand: how do we recover the data? The specific practices of the bricoleurs’ trade are fieldwork, participant observation, and ethnog ...
... representations that are fitted to the specifics of a complex situation (Denzin and Lincoln 2011: 4). However, the bricoleur also has a set of tools, so the questions stand: how do we recover the data? The specific practices of the bricoleurs’ trade are fieldwork, participant observation, and ethnog ...
An excerpt from
... invites commentary from our consultants and seeks to make that commentary overtly part of the ethnographic text as it develops. In turn, this negotiation is reintegrated back into the fieldwork process itself. Importantly, the process yields texts that are co-conceived or cowritten with local commun ...
... invites commentary from our consultants and seeks to make that commentary overtly part of the ethnographic text as it develops. In turn, this negotiation is reintegrated back into the fieldwork process itself. Importantly, the process yields texts that are co-conceived or cowritten with local commun ...
RUPC #5 The relevance of ethnography today: is it still small
... making activity. The ethnographer steps into this zone not as a reporter but as a mediator who works with artists to hold together elements that are otherwise too hot or just plain elusive. To bring forward these images into the public imaginary these mediators must build platforms for circulation a ...
... making activity. The ethnographer steps into this zone not as a reporter but as a mediator who works with artists to hold together elements that are otherwise too hot or just plain elusive. To bring forward these images into the public imaginary these mediators must build platforms for circulation a ...
The ethnographic present revisited
... in my car that still did not have one. By the mid 1980s, however, all this had quickly changed. Portugal had entered the European Union and infrastructures were improving at a heady pace – especially important were the improvements in communications. Migrants were now in their second generation – th ...
... in my car that still did not have one. By the mid 1980s, however, all this had quickly changed. Portugal had entered the European Union and infrastructures were improving at a heady pace – especially important were the improvements in communications. Migrants were now in their second generation – th ...
A PORTRAIT OF ANTHROPOLOGY AS A YOUNG DISCIPLINE
... the crisis. Because of this, a short examination of the book is in order. Marcus and Fischer have divided their history of the crisis into three parts. In the first, they make an organized effort to classify the new strategies of interpretive ethnography that have surfaced in the movement toward a m ...
... the crisis. Because of this, a short examination of the book is in order. Marcus and Fischer have divided their history of the crisis into three parts. In the first, they make an organized effort to classify the new strategies of interpretive ethnography that have surfaced in the movement toward a m ...
Understanding Emotional Experience in Fieldwork
... in a larger context. As Powdermaker (1966) has explained, ethnographers “write out of their immersion and participation in a particular situation . . . the particular illuminates the human condition” (p. 296). On occasion, these “particulars” come to us, unannounced, on our doorstep, but mostly, we ...
... in a larger context. As Powdermaker (1966) has explained, ethnographers “write out of their immersion and participation in a particular situation . . . the particular illuminates the human condition” (p. 296). On occasion, these “particulars” come to us, unannounced, on our doorstep, but mostly, we ...
General reading list (coursepack)
... Ethnographic Research: A Guide to General Conduct. London: Academic Press. Pp. ...
... Ethnographic Research: A Guide to General Conduct. London: Academic Press. Pp. ...
Behar Two
... What is particularly important in the discussion that hovers around the self-consciously experimental texts is not experimentation for its own sake, but the theoretical insight that the play with writing technique brings to consciousness, and the sense that continued innovation in the nature of ethn ...
... What is particularly important in the discussion that hovers around the self-consciously experimental texts is not experimentation for its own sake, but the theoretical insight that the play with writing technique brings to consciousness, and the sense that continued innovation in the nature of ethn ...
Ethnographic Present
... Malinowski believed that all aspects of culture were linked and intertwined, making it impossible to write about just one cultural feature without discussing how it relates to others. Malinowski argued that understanding the emic perspective, the native’s point of view, was the primary goal of e ...
... Malinowski believed that all aspects of culture were linked and intertwined, making it impossible to write about just one cultural feature without discussing how it relates to others. Malinowski argued that understanding the emic perspective, the native’s point of view, was the primary goal of e ...