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Discussion Time!
Activity
When explaining an unknown environment how do you make it comprehensible to the audience?
What do you think Emerson left out when it came to ethnographer research?
When telling a story what details are the most important to include?
Discussion Question: Pinker - are descriptions Messiah or Killjoy?
Discussion Question: When explaining an unknown environment how do you make it comprehensible to the audience?
An ethnographer is never seen as a natural born into that culture
Because:
Nacirema
Different descriptions of the same situation are possible and plausible
Key Concepts:
1. Getting Close/Immersion
2. Cannot be completely neutral/detached
3. Ethnographer 's presence impacts environment - revealing
4. Need to be sensitive to how you are perceived
Agar - Garfinkeling
Joining the conversation vs writing alone. Doing and writing should not be seen as separate tasks
Inscription Transcription
Storytelling fieldnotes are episodic and fragmented
We constitute our way of life based on writing style and stories shared
Outsourced
Inseparability of Methods and Findings
Pursuit of Indigenous Meaning
Agar - Rich points
What do you remember about the jungle scene picture?
Writing Fieldnotes Contemporaneously
Take a look at this picture and remember as many details as you can!
Importance of Interaction Detail
Is this what you were Expecting?
How did your imagination of the scene differ from the picture?
Discussion Question:
How would your biases impact your frame of mind when relating an event?