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,…
English 5870
Commentary #4 Liminality
by Amble • • 1 Comment
Bonnie Sunstein argues that a good ethnography lives in the liminal space between story telling and informational text. This is a very fine line, because if we force ourselves to present the information we gather in as objective a way…
Tools
Tips for Interviews and Fieldnotes
by Kim De Vries • • 0 Comments
Here is a short set of guidelines and tips for fieldnotes, and in more detail for interviewing, adapted from the Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes & Poverty (RECOUP). Fieldnotes and Note-taking
English 5870
Commentary #4 Sunstein: On Guilt and Fiction
by fsnowden • • 1 Comment
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…
English 5870
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.…
English 5870
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. …