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…
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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…
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…
Sunstein – Commentary 4
by mariashreve • • 1 Comment
Maria Shreve Dr. DeVries English 5870 17 March 2009 My initial reaction after reading Culture on the Page: Experience, Rhetoric and Aesthetics in Ethnographic Writing by Bonnie Sunstein is that I had no idea when I enrolled in…
Commentary Four
by Mike • • 3 Comments
Mike Calou Commentary Four My over-riding thought, as I read the “Culture on the Page: Experience, Rhetoric and Aesthetics in Ethnographic Writing,” by Bonnie Sunstein, was that this essay is giving me some tools to write up and document my…