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…

Paul Stoller

Tina Bell English 5870 Dr. Devries 12 May 2009 Commentary 10 “The way in which we choose to write is an ethical issue” (Pryer 10). When I read this line from Pryer’s article two week’s ago, I thought it summed…

Emig

Tina Bell English 5001 9 May 2009 Commentary I have always written the given assignment and then doubled the time it took me to calculate how quickly my most experienced might need to finish the writing assignment. I do this…