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    something basic like what they did today‚ through other’s words. Some individuals are confident enough to write about themselves and talk freely to the public. In both cases‚ Mary Louise Pratt and John Wideman show these forms of speaking known as “ethnography” and “autoethnography” through their writings. Mary Louise Pratt uses many ideas and terms in her work “Arts of the Contact Zone”.

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    For more information regarding Desmasduit and her family please refer to: Marshall‚ Ingeborg. History and Ethnography of the Beothuk. Pages 160-175. There is limited information on the Beothuks world view and religious practices‚ most coming from Beothuk captives such as Desmesduit and Shanawdithit‚ and some from remains found by archeologists. We do know that

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    “The personal is political‚ ” suggests that emotions in daily life are the result of a larger system or institutions. Ordinary reactions are the consequence of larger systematic issues related to gender‚ race‚ religion‚ etc. Ethnography opens up discussion about how emotions are responses to our surroundings. Lisa Tillman’s reflection on her journey aims to help people understand that her experience has been guided by the stigmatized idea of bulimia. The concept of suggests that people’s perceptions

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    The Mission of an Autoethnography In Mary Louise Pratt’s essay‚ “Arts of the Contact Zone‚” we are introduced to the idea of contact zones‚ autoethnography‚ and new ways of looking at common ideas. I wanted to see some examples of what she was really talking about. After reading John Edgar Wideman’s “Our Time” we can see that Pratt’s ideas and terms are accurate because they can be applied to this reading as well as others. "Our Time" is an autoethnography because it uses diffeerent points of

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    Book] : Selected Essays / By Clifford Geertz‚ New York : Basic Books‚ 1973.‚ University of Liverpool Catalogue‚ EBSCOhost‚ viewed 21 November 2011. Josephine L.L‚ C 2010‚ ’Evaluating the impact of Arnould and Wallendorf ’s (1994) market-oriented ethnography ’‚ Journal Of Business Research‚ 63‚ pp. 1295-1300‚ ScienceDirect‚ EBSCOhost‚ viewed 22 November 2011. Mead‚ R. & Andrews‚ T. G. (2009) International management. 4th ed. Chichester‚ England: John Wiley & Sons. Spillman‚ L n.d.‚ ’Enriching exchange:

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    Summarising Clifford Geertz’ ‘Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture’ Drishta Gopala‚ 3351‚ B.Sc.(H) Anthropology- II Year Geertz starts his article discussing the radical nature of the concept of ‘Culture’‚ one around which the entire field of Anthropology has arisen. He compares it to all other powerful scientific concepts and ideas that rose to fame and power‚ that due to resolving multiple fundamental problems‚ are thought to be the ultimate solution to all problems and

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    palsy whilst at school and Bourgois’ son had just been diagnosed with this condition‚ which reduced him (and me!) to tears. Bourgois does often show his disdain at their actions which does question the credibility of the ethnography‚ but I feel that it just lets the ethnography be all the more honest and perhaps surely it is more credible for him to have been upfront and reflect on his outbursts and its effects on the subjects as he

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    observation took place at Waretown High in California Central Valley. Her method was using ethnographic to observed on 60 senior girl at Waretown High. Half of the girls in her observation were Mexican American. Ethnography is a method conducts by observation life of a group of people. Ethnography raises questions about social life of a group of people. By having an established understanding about cultural‚ historical and structural forces‚ help the readers understand the differences across the different

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    After reading "Coping with Stress: An Ethnography of Firefighters” I believe Rubenstein completed an ethnography. Through his use of observation and the interviewing of an informant‚ the author gained insight into how some firefighters deal with stress. Rubenstein faced a few challenges: he couldn’t observe or experience the major causes of stress on firefighters. He couldn’t ride with the firefighters to a call or have firsthand observations of a fireman’s actions inside a burning building. He

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    Culture and Society ANTHRO 9 Lectures: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30-10:45 A.M. Room: Haines 39 (in basement-A level) Final Exam date: March 18 (Tuesday): 3-6P.M. Instructor Prof. Mariko Tamanoi Email: mtamanoi@anthro.ucla.edu Office: Haines 325 Phone: 310-206-8399 Office hours: Tuesdays 11:30 A.M. – 1:30 P.M. FIRST and MOST IMPORTANT: READ THIS SYLLABUS CAREFULLY TO THE END! Section Leaders Bradley Cardozo: bcardozo@ucla.edu Camille Frazier: c.frazier@ucla.edu Emily

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