When reading Sunstein’s article, I could not help but think of Mary Roach’s work Stiff. If you’ve read Stiff, you may ask what the study of dead bodies has to do with ethnographic research. I think the two relate because…
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Commentary #4
by mgarcia5 • • 1 Comment
Commentary # 4: 3/17/09 Bonnie S. Sunstein’s article was enthralling. I could “see” the informant dance on the page in the arms of the researcher, swirling towards the reader, floating on the text…ending in our story; the ethnographical write-up.…
Commentary #4
by arussell • • 1 Comment
Adam Russell Accepting Subjectivity in the Research Process I liked Mike Calou’s use of the term “voyeur” to describe the role of the ethnographer and the subsequent guilt they feel for reducing their subjects to objects within a study. …
5870 Commentary 4 Sunstein
by Keri • • 2 Comments
In our last class, Dr. Devries mentioned an instance where she was shocked to learn that an acclaimed researcher had used a cut and paste method of recounting his research to showcase certain theories. I too was puzzled because…
Research Proposal -5001
by sbahadur • • 1 Comment
Research Proposal Rhetoric has gained much prestige during the past century. Rhetoric is a powerful tool to sway the world into emotions . For the purpose of this research, I will focus on Quintilian’s theory on the Art of Emotional…
Layers
by tbell • • 2 Comments
Tina Bell 5870 Dr. DeVries Commentary week 5 17 March 2009 Layers of Knowledge It seems hard to believe that ethnography was a term I was unfamiliar with at the onset of this semester even though I consider myself…
Sunstein: Commentary #4
by nweidner • • 1 Comment
Ned Weidner Commentary #4 Bonnie Suntein’s representation of ethnographic research is my favorite so far because her illustration of ethnography is the closest to my own. A lot of the other researchers have presented ethnography in a scientific way,…
Sunstein Reading Response
by James • • 2 Comments
James D. Dyer Dr. Kim De Vries ENG 5870 Spring 2009 Re: Sunstein—She missed something here: […] it is useful to ask such key focusing questions as: 1. Where is the culture? 2. What is the researcher-writer’s…
Commentary #3
by arussell • • 3 Comments
Adam Russell Getting Familiar with the Subject When Brueggemann took the assignment at Gallaudet University, she decided to exist between the two roles of participant-observer and occupy what she called the hyphenated world. Through this process, Brueggemann created a…
Liu–Comparative Rhetoric is Tricky (#1)
by Kathy • • 0 Comments
Seemingly, it is human nature to try and reach an understanding of a lesser known concept in terms of a similar well known concept. In contrastive rhetoric, for example, scholars compare Western rhetorical traditions to that of other cultures…