Commentary Ten: Stoller Ethnography/Memoir/Imagination/Story According to Stoller, there is not “one best way” to write ethnography. Stoller states that “Each body of ethnographic material is unique and therefore requires a specifically contoured textual strategy…there are key elements that are necessary…
English 5870
5/12/09 Log
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Log 5/12/09 English 5870 Dr. DeVries KD: Purpose of presentations is to share observations. Minimum 5 minutes, informal. Not enough time to set up for Power Point, can upload on blog if using slides. Overhead and/or handouts will work. …
5/5/09 Log-5870
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Joel Manfredi natural cures for herpes Log for 5-5-09 Dr. De Vries Ferguson, “Don’t Believe The Hype” Joel reads the Log Adam remembers how the book “Dirt” got brought up… because it was from the four points…
Stoller comentary…
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James D. Dyer Dr. DeVries Ethnography Spring 2009 In ethnographies, memoirs, novels, and films anthropologists tell other people’s stories. In so doing, as Adamu Jenitongo once reminded me, we also tell our own stories. Many scholars may well object…
Stoller Commentary
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In Ethnography/Memoir/Imagination/Story, Paul Stoller looks at ethnography from an anthropological perspective. He notes that because he thinks of anthropology of the most personal of the human sciences, “the personal usually has a deep impact on the professional. For me,…
Open House
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Dr. Devries and Fellow Classmates, I will be conducting an “open house” ritual at my school tonight from 6:30-7:30. My colleague is out ill and I will be marshaling her room as well as mine. I will try to leave…
Stoller commentary
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“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…
Commentary #10
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Adam Russell Ethnographer as Storyteller When I read Pryer’s article, I thought that she was making a case for fictionalization in the sense that events are fluid, and some things can be taken out all together while others are…
Stoller
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At the beginning of this course, I had a vague idea that the way to ‘do’ ethnography was to show up with a notebook, a recorder, a video camera, observe, come home, edit everything down and end up with something…
Paul Stoller
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Joel Manfredi English 5870 Dr. De Vries Paul Stoller–Ethnography/Memoir/Imagination/Story This reading from Paul Stoller seems relevant because it gets back to the idea of writing ethnography in somewhat of a memoir form. Yet Stoller does a great job…