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Incoherence of the Incoherence

Incoherence of the Incoherence   This consequence, that everything which exists is simple, is a necessary consequence for the philosophers, if they assume that the First Agent is like a simple agent in the empirical world. But this consequence is…

Lu Xing

Lu Xing           Lu Xing says that“Chinese rhetoric has  implicit rhetorical practices are contained in literary and historical texts” (Xing 2).  “There is, in fact, no single unified signifier, equivalent to the term rhetoric, in Chinese texts” (Xing 3).“In the…

5/5/09 Log-5870

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…

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

            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

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

  “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

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

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

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…