ANTH 319.090 | Research Methods in Expressive Culture

Working Images in Ethnographic Research

Posted on March 30th, 2009 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

from jen
this book was about the illegal drug culture in Harlem, NYC. the author began with a history of drug use in the Harlem area. i liked the way he included the interviews within his ethnography and made it part of the writing and used it as a reference. he also gave alot of facts [...]

Posted on March 26th, 2009 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

Social Life of Stories
by Julie Cruikshank
Personally I found her style very dry.  I’m not sure if it was just the part of the book that I read but I thought it was kinda boring and not very narrative.  I felt that I got a lot of the background to the story but never heard the [...]

Posted on March 26th, 2009 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

Qualitative Methods Ch7
 
The Interview as Social Interaction and Speech Event
            -  The Interview as Social Interaction
                        1.  “Any Interview constitutes a social situation between two individuals; it is a process of continuous, spiral interaction in which one person’s response to the stimulation of another in turn becomes the stimulation for another response(Palmer 1928)”
                        2.  The [...]

Posted on March 24th, 2009 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

I appreciate the format of the book.  I love the quotations that precede each chapter.  I think incorporating other voices in the chapter lends to the authority of the information, and sets a clear theme for the reader.
-Caitlin

Posted on March 23rd, 2009 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

By Samantha
I don’t like the first sentence of the Preface because it sounds too philosophical, but I like how Basso goes on in the Preface to tell how he was inspired to write about this ethnography.

Posted on March 19th, 2009 under Uncategorized. Tags: readings. Comments: 1

tomorrow night Club Pantheon
art show
students/non-student art
proceeds go to LEEP
fun expressive culture event

Posted on March 17th, 2009 under Uncategorized. Tags: events. Comments: None

I hope you will all get a chance to visit some parts of this event to see and hear the sights and sounds of the College of Charleston’s greatest multilingual event! Here is the line-up of events and times:

Dancers and Talent Show
11:15-11:30    Mexican Folkloric Dances & Song
11:30-11:45    Yoga Presentation (J. Mink, K. Bonner & S. [...]

Posted on March 15th, 2009 under Uncategorized. Tags: events. Comments: None