Brooke A. Dunn History of Popular Music in America Ethnography #1 Mountain Heart and The Westbound Rangers at Cumberland Caverns Upon arriving at Cumberland Caverns‚ I really had no idea what an experience I was about to embark on. It was the simplicity of two Roots music bands performing in nature’s beautiful Volcano Room of the Cumberland Caverns that provided a sense of authenticity and realness that I had never experienced at any other show. The Westbound Rangers added a very young
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Anthropology 110 Ethnography Paper April 10th 2013 The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down It was typically Hmong for patients to appear passively obedient – thus protecting their own dignity by concealing their ignorance and their doctor’s dignity by acting deferential – and then‚ as soon as they left the hospital‚ to ignore everything to which they had supposedly assented” (page 68). This quote by author‚ Anne Fadiman‚ of ethnography The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down demonstrates quite
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Mini Ethnography: Part 1 In my ethnography I’m going to study a coffeehouse chain‚ such as Starbucks. I will be observing as well as socializing in attempt to compare and contrast multiple characteristics one must have to face in working in such an environment. At Starbucks the Baristas must have a genuine upbeat personality to each customer. I would like to study a locally owned coffee house as well to compare the different environments and how one might keep a small business afloat when we have
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the campaign‚ this creates a huge amount of stress and pressure for success. While nothing can eliminate the stress of the countdown to Election Day‚ the proper organization of a political campaign can avoid some unnecessary challenges. For my ethnography I decided
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A couple weeks ago‚ I accompanied my friend‚ Pala Agustin‚ for a day of work at her family’s restaurant‚ Banig. To be quite honest‚ I was not expecting to learn as many things as I did learn on that trip. Firstly‚ I was expecting to learn more about the fast food and food service culture‚ but to my surprise I learned more about the culture of the people who owned the restaurant. Being a close friend of Pala’s I had an emic perspective in the whole experience;
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Madison Cerda Interpersonal Communications Ethnography Report Social Penetration Theory October 1‚ 2012 As I began this assignment I wasn’t completely sure what concept I was going to observe. In result‚ I went to a location without knowing what exactly I was looking for‚ I just observed my surroundings immensely. As I sat there in Starbucks for over an hour I felt a bit out of luck since nothing was catching my eye that would relate to a concept that we had learned about within the past
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What has Denise Levertov’s poem‚ “In Thai Binh (Peace) Province” clarify for you about history and memory. Levetov’s poem “In Thai Binh (Peace) Province” shows how sometimes the collective memory that is the history of a society is used by those within that society as a substitute for a lack of personal connection. This inevitably clouds not only the individual’s perception of the event but also hides the truth‚ and also becomes part of the collective memory. This perpetual motion of fallacies via
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communicating between members in a small organization. By using ethnography of communication‚ the researchers did fieldwork and interviews to discover how humor link coworkers together on a typical work day. According to Hammersley and Atkinson‚ “the researchers were interested specifically in humor in organizations and how it forms a particular way of communicating.” (p.g 285) Also in the article‚ they explain researchers using ethnography of communication to discover the study through three simple
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Mini-Ethnography The chosen group for my mini-ethnography has been on football fans behaviour before‚ during and after two afternoon Barnsley FC games (one against Blackburn on 26/12/2016 and the other against Birmingham on 31/12/2016) both held at home in Oakwell Stadium. Each observation period was of an approximate 2.75 hour time span and followed the same route. Before and after the game this includes walking down surrounding streets accompanied by a mixture of home and away fans and then -
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The reason that I choose this article is because it relates to my own area of interest Ethnography and the study of culture-sharing groups. By taking this study I began to break it down into the characteristics of qualitative approaches: Focus: The article is very successful in defining who the target group for the study is to the reader. This study presents our perspective on writing an ethnography using Van Maanen’s (1988) realist‚ confessional‚ and critical tales. But our narrative is
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