Dr. Moore Quinn, Ph.D.
I have spent countless hours laboring in trying to find my “ideal” research topic. At the beginning of the semester I was so focused on trying to do my research on the Deaf and hearing impaired. However as time went on I became aware of how ignorant I was in the deaf culture and hearing [...]
Posted by Robyn
I am not sure yet whether my project is going to concentrate more on the facial expressions during storytelling or on what it is like growing up hearing in a deaf family. Here are some questions for both topics:
1. What was it like for you growing up hearing in a deaf family?
2. How [...]
Field-site Selection
I chose to do my research on Deaf culture, more specifically, storytelling in Deaf
culture. At first, I wanted to do research on something involving medicine like EMT or
nursing. However, as I thought about it more, I realized that it would be very difficult to
actually carry out any of the research. I would not have [...]
posted by Paul
Background
When you listen to music, especially jazz, you become emerged in a complex and layered communication. My primary focus is going to decipher the language of jazz. I may go about this in a few ways. First, I’m going to compare learning to play jazz to language acquisition. This involves [...]
My semester-long research project will be an ethnography of ghost-storytelling culture in Charleston, South Carolina, and the surrounding areas (namely, Georgetown and Pawleys Island). The fieldsite will include the major cultural vehicles through which ghost stories are conveyed. The popular tourist-targeting ghost walks or tours will be one significant site, where I will get a [...]
We have been talking about how ethnography is rarely “value free.” Neither is ethnographic film.
Take a look at “Night Mail” and ask how this film might have been different had it been made independently rather than having been funded by “interested” parties.
Night Mail, Part 1
Night Mail, Part 2
Night Mail, Part 3
Here we have one of the first documentary films that features “interviewing.” Do you think the interviewees are “natural”? This is also a good opportunity to begin to deal with issues of representation. How is the subject of housing treated? How are the interviewees themselves treated? Do you think this film violates modern-day ethical standards [...]
I will begin the process of posting some classic documentary footage available for viewing both in and out of class. I hope students will view these materials for ideas about how ethnographic filmmakers worked (and work) their craft. Here is a classic that gives an idea of the use of “voiceover” and the “authorial” stance [...]
Jen Smith
For my participant-observation field site, I selected to do research in a local tattoo shop in downtown Charleston. The shop I choose is Holy City Tattoo on upper King Street. The reason I choose this specific site is because I have visited this location before and received a tattoo from the owner. Having experienced [...]
Samantha Lytle
Field Site Proposal
How do Germans take their coffee? This is a question I have been asking myself ever since I have noticed a pattern in German coffee culture within my own extended family. I intend to answer this question by observing and participating in the German custom of coffee and cake at various locations [...]