“Can there be some kind of reconciliation between stories and science?” – Stoller p.188 After having many conversations in both this class and others about the nature of writing and…
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“Even my conditioning has been conditioned.”
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“You like what?” “I like girls with that light complexion look.” “You’re a moron.” “Man I can’t help it.” “What, being a moron?” “Yeah that too.” “You’re the first one out there with a dashiki talking that shit.” “I’m a…
Pryer commentary
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I too am sometimes disenchanted with academia because the required writing style and research methods can be so rigid and don’t often allow much for voice, regardless of what some research and scholars want us to believe. Pryer attempts to…
Panopticon
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Foucault shows up everywhere. I guess that’s what happens when you’re considered one of the greatest thinkers of your time. Foucault wrote this in response to Jeremy Bentham’s work in the late eighteenth century and his development of a disciplinary…
Mid-term ENGL 5870
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Ned Weidner ENGL 5870 Dr. DeVries 4/8/09 1) Developing and articulating a working definition of ethnography is important to me so that I can better understand the work we are doing this semester as ethnographers. However, developing a concrete…
Goffman Commentary
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I believe it was Shakespeare that said “all the world’s a stage. And all the men and women merely players.” This is precisely what Goffman is saying in The Presentation of Self. We are all actors on this stage. We…
Walker Percy Commentary
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“…the thing is lost through its packaging.” – The Loss of the Creature This is a frightening thought because nothing can be taken as it is, or as you see that it is, or as it is presented to…
class log 3/10/09
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Log: ENGL 5870 3/10/09 Room: Lib 162 Time: 6:00 When speaking, students and professor will be referred to by their first and last initials. BJB = Brenda Jo Brueggeman Seating arrangement of room starting with KMV and moving clockwise: FS,…
Sunstein: Commentary #4
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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,…
Commentary #3
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Brenda Jo Brueggeman “Still-Life Representations and Silences in the Participant Observer Role” Brenda Jo elicits some very thought provoking questions. She follows in the footsteps of Foucault questioning “what does it matter who is speaking.” She questions the space…