groups and people as they go about their everyday lives.” Ethnographers do this by going out and “getting close” to the participants for prolonged periods of time in their natural setting. Emerson et al. Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes‚ p.1 Ethnography moves from the specific to the general. (inductive) Practice of providing ethnographic reports through a thick description--- notes that exhibit depth and complexity. As Neuman noted‚ an event could take 3 minutes‚ but require many pages of descriptive
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Abdullah (08456762) Is ethnography fact or fiction? Writing ethnography is always a sensitive proposition since it involves representing a culture and social realities with countless factors to be taken into consideration‚ for example: power. Although‚ at times one still hears of it referred to as ideal and neutral ethnography that yields reality in the way it is presented without being questioned‚ criticised and diagnosed by personal values (Pratt‚ 1986:27). Ethnography cannot be easily pinned
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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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EtWashington‚ TaNazjha word count 1338 Ethnography Project With this observation project‚ the goal is to get out of your comfort zone and go into places we have never been before. We should come to an understanding of a particular ritual which is being done rather we agree with it or not. The ritual I have chosen is attending a strip club. In a strip club there are performers who take off their clothing while dancing to music. The performers get paid through tips they get from their customers
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phenomenons of political campaigns are tightly tied to lobby groups and political parties. The first ’modern’ campaign is thought to be William Ewart Gladstone’s Midlothian campaign in the 1880s‚ although there may be earlier recognizably modern examples from the 19th century. Democratic societies have regular election campaigns‚ but political campaigning can occur on particular issues even in non-democracies so long as freedom of expression is allowed. American election campaigns in the 19th century
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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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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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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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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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