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1 Stepping In and Stepping Out: Understanding Cultures |
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Defining Culture: Fieldwork and Ethnography |
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2 | (2) |
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Stepping In: Revealing Our Subcultures |
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4 | (2) |
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BOX 1 Looking at Subcultures |
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5 | (1) |
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Investigating Perspectives: Insider and Outsider |
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6 | (2) |
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Stepping Out: Making the Familiar Strange and the Strange Familiar |
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8 | (6) |
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Body Ritual among the Nacirema |
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8 | (5) |
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BOX 2 Making the Ordinary Extraordinary |
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13 | (1) |
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Posing Questions: Ethnographic vs. Journalistic |
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14 | (8) |
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Folk "Cure" Sold Locally High in Lead |
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14 | (4) |
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BOX 3 Engaging the Ethnographic Perspective |
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18 | (1) |
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Fairfax Residents Become U.S. Citizens, Fairfax Connection |
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19 | (3) |
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Fieldworking with This Book |
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22 | (1) |
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An Ethnographic Study: "Friday Night at Iowa 80" |
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23 | (16) |
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Friday Night at Iowa 80: The Truck Stop as Community and Culture (Student Project) |
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24 | (15) |
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39 | (1) |
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FieldWriting: Establishing a Voice |
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40 | (3) |
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43 | (8) |
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House for the Homeless: A Place to Hang Your Hat (Student Project) |
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44 | (7) |
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51 | (1) |
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The Research Portfolio: Definitions and Purpose |
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52 | (2) |
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DO THIS: Select a Fieldsite |
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54 | (1) |
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2 Writing Self, Writing Cultures: Understanding FieldWriting |
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55 | (46) |
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57 | (6) |
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58 | (3) |
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BOX 4 Exploratory Writing |
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61 | (2) |
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FieldWriting: Point of View and Rhetoric |
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63 | (3) |
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66 | (7) |
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66 | (6) |
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BOX 5 Exploratory Notetaking with a Group |
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72 | (1) |
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73 | (7) |
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74 | (4) |
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78 | (2) |
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Fieldnotes: The Key to Your Project |
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80 | (3) |
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Organizing Your Fieldnotes |
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83 | (3) |
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BOX 7 Sharing Your Initial Fieldnotes |
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85 | (1) |
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Analyzing Your Fieldnotes |
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86 | (7) |
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BOX 8 Questioning Your Fieldnotes |
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88 | (4) |
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Feng-Shui: Reflections on a Sociology Class (Student Project) |
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92 | (1) |
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93 | (6) |
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Representing Ethnographic Experiences |
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94 | (5) |
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The Research Portfolio: Reflecting on Your Fieldnotes |
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99 | (1) |
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DO THIS: Question Your Notes |
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100 | (1) |
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3 Reading Self, Reading Cultures: Understanding Texts |
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101 | (64) |
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Reading Cultures as Text and Texts as Culture |
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102 | (9) |
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103 | (6) |
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109 | (2) |
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Positioning: Reading and Writing about Yourself |
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111 | (4) |
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BOX 10 Positioning Yourself |
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113 | (2) |
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Understanding Positioning: Checking In on Yourself |
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115 | (4) |
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BOX 11 Unlearning Our Privilege |
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117 | (2) |
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119 | (5) |
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BOX 12 From Ethos to Ethics |
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122 | (2) |
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Reading an Object: The Cultural Artifact |
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124 | (5) |
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BOX 13 Reading an Artifact |
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126 | (3) |
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The Uses of Cultural Artifacts |
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129 | (7) |
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129 | (7) |
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136 | (4) |
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BOX 14 Fieldworking Book Clubs |
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137 | (3) |
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FieldWriting: Published and Unpublished Written Sources |
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140 | (1) |
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Reading Electronic Communities |
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141 | (14) |
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Out Patients (Student Project) |
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143 | (12) |
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Working with Online Communities |
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155 | (6) |
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BOX 15 Locating Online Cultures |
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155 | (6) |
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The Research Portfolio: An Option for Rereading |
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161 | (4) |
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DO THIS: Read Your Fieldsite |
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165 | (1) |
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4 Researching Place: The Spatial Gaze |
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165 | (54) |
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166 | (4) |
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On Seeing England for the First Time |
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167 | (1) |
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BOX 16 Recalling a Sense of Place |
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168 | (2) |
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170 | (2) |
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FieldWriting: The Grammar of Observation |
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172 | (7) |
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BOX 17 Writing a Verbal Snapshot |
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175 | (4) |
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Deepening Description through Research |
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179 | (7) |
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The Cemetery as Marketplace in Salem, Massachusetts |
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179 | (7) |
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Learning How to Look: Mapping Space |
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186 | (6) |
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187 | (5) |
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Learning How to Look: Finding a Focal Point |
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192 | (2) |
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BOX 19 Finding a Focal Point |
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193 | (1) |
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Learning How to Look: Identifying Unity and Tension |
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194 | (3) |
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Strike a Pose (Student Project) |
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195 | (2) |
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Learning How to Look: Colonized Spaces |
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197 | (7) |
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The Happy Canyon (Student Project) |
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198 | (6) |
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The Research Portfolio: Learning from Your Data |
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204 | (13) |
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A Pose on "Strike a Pose," Karen Downing (Portfolio Reflection) |
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215 | (2) |
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217 | (2) |
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5 Researching People: The Collaborative Listener |
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219 | (52) |
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The Interview: Learning How to Ask |
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220 | (5) |
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BOX 20 Using a Cultural Artifact in an Interview |
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222 | (3) |
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225 | (5) |
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BOX 21 Establishing Rapport |
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229 | (1) |
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Recording and Transcribing |
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230 | (14) |
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Ralph's Sports Bar (Student Project) |
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234 | (8) |
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BOX 22 Analyzing Your Interviewing Skills |
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242 | (2) |
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The Informant's Perspective: An Anthropologist on Mars |
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244 | (5) |
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An Anthropologist on Mars |
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245 | (4) |
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249 | (3) |
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BOX 23 Writing a Family Story |
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250 | (2) |
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One Family Story: The Core and Its Variants |
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252 | (3) |
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255 | (9) |
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257 | (3) |
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Listening Is an Act of Love |
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260 | (1) |
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I Can Read, I Can Write (Online Only) |
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BOX 24 Starting an Oral History |
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261 | (3) |
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FieldWriting: Using Character, Setting, and Theme to Create a Portrait |
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264 | (4) |
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BOX 25 Writing a Verbal Portrait |
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266 | (2) |
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The Research Portfolio: Reflective Documentation |
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268 | (2) |
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DO THIS: Reflect on Researching People |
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270 | (1) |
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6 Researching Language: The Cultural Translator |
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271 | (40) |
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Linking Body Language and Culture |
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272 | (4) |
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BOX 26 Observing Body Language |
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274 | (2) |
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Linking Words and Culture |
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276 | (5) |
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276 | (3) |
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BOX 27 Listening for Words: Creating a Glossary |
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279 | (2) |
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Using Insider Language in Your Writing |
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281 | (1) |
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Words as Cultural Artifacts |
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282 | (8) |
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Researching Occupation: Recording Insider Language |
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290 | (3) |
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BOX 28 Describing Occupational Terms |
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291 | (2) |
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Verbal Performance: Curses |
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293 | (4) |
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BOX 29 Gathering Verbal Performances: Proverbs, Jokes, and Sayings |
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295 | (2) |
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Researching Urban Legends |
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297 | (1) |
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Being a Cultural Translator |
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297 | (8) |
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298 | (7) |
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FieldWriting: Dialogue on the Page |
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305 | (2) |
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The Research Portfolio: Synthesis |
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307 | (3) |
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DO THIS: Translate Culture |
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310 | (1) |
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7 Researching Archives: Locating Culture |
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311 | (40) |
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Everything, Perfectly, Forever (Student Project) |
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314 | (3) |
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317 | (8) |
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320 | (4) |
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324 | (1) |
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325 | (2) |
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327 | (1) |
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328 | (5) |
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BOX 31 Sorting through Public Archives |
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330 | (2) |
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The Attic and Its Nails (Poem) |
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332 | (1) |
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Organizing Archival Material |
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333 | (2) |
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335 | (8) |
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336 | (5) |
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BOX 32 Alternative Archives |
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341 | (2) |
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Electronic Archives: Using the Internet |
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343 | (2) |
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FieldWriting: Annotated Bibliographies |
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345 | (2) |
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The Research Portfolio: Representing the Unflat Stuff |
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347 | (2) |
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DO THIS: Search the FieldWorking Archives |
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349 | (2) |
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8 FieldWriting: From Down Draft to Up Draft |
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351 | (40) |
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353 | (5) |
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354 | (4) |
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358 | (3) |
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361 | (8) |
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BOX 33 Listening to the Voices in Your Draft |
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367 | (2) |
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Representing Culture in Your Fieldwriting |
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369 | (2) |
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371 | (8) |
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371 | (8) |
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FieldWriting: Analytic Section Headings |
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379 | (2) |
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381 | (4) |
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381 | (2) |
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BOX 34 Sharing Data: Partners in Revision |
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383 | (2) |
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The Research Portfolio: One-Page Analysis and Annotated Table of Contents |
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385 | (3) |
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A Final Comment: Paying Attention to Writing |
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388 | (2) |
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DO THIS: Smooth Your Final Draft |
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390 | (1) |
| Appendix A MLA Documentation Guidelines |
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391 | (10) |
| Appendix B APA Documentation Guidelines |
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401 | (8) |
| Appendix C Works Cited and Recommended Readings |
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409 | (6) |
| Glossary |
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415 | (4) |
| Credits |
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419 | (2) |
| Index |
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