Presents specific methods and models for carrying out all phases of field-based research, and offers "hands-on" practice. This title addresses the reading, writing, listening and speaking techniques necessary for understanding, interpreting and presenting the lives of those interviewed.
To the Instructor vii(4) To the Student xi CHAPTER 1 Stepping In and Stepping Out: Understanding Cultures 1(46) Defining Culture: Fieldwork and Ethnography 2(2) Stepping In: Revealing Our Subcultures 4(1) BOX 1 Looking at Subcultures 5(1) Investigating Perspectives: Insider and Outsider 6(2) Stepping Out: Making the Familiar Strange and the Strange Familiar 8(1) Horace Miner Body Ritual among the Nacirema 9(4) BOX 2 Making the Ordinary Extraordinary 13(1) Posing Questions: Ethnographic and Journalistic 13(1) Byron Brown Church Opens Doors to Vietnamese 14(3) BOX 3 Using the Ethnographic Perspective 17(2) FieldWorking with This Book 19(2) An Ethnographic Study: Friday Night at Iowa 80 21(1) Rick Zollo Friday Night at Iowa 80 22(15) The Research Portfolio: Definitions and Purpose 37(2) FieldWriting: Establishing a Voice 39(4) FieldWords 43(1) FieldReading 44(3) CHAPTER 2 Reading Self, Reading Cultures: Understanding Texts 47(50) Gloria Naylor Mama Day 49(5) BOX 1 Responding to Text 54(2) Reading Culture as Text and Text as Culture 56(1) Positioning: Reading and Writing about Yourself 57(2) BOX 5 Positioning Yourself 59(1) Observing: Look at Your Fish 60(1) Samuel H. Scudder Look at Your Fish 61(3) BOX 6 Double-Entry Observation 64(2) Negotiating: The Ethics of Entry 66(5) Describing: Taking Fieldnotes 71(6) BOX 7 Reflective Fieldnotes 77(1) Reading an Object: The Cultural Artifact 78(2) BOX 8 Reading an Artifact 80(2) Reading Everyday Use: The Uses of Cultural Artifacts 82(1) Alice Walker Everyday Use 82(6) The Research Portfolio: Options for Reflection 88(2) FieldWriting: Published and Unpublished Written Sources 90(5) FieldWords 95(1) FieldReading 95(2) CHAPTER 3 Researching Place: The Spatial Gaze 97(72) A Sense of Place: Personal Geography 98(1) Barry Lopez Losing Our Sense of Place 99(7) BOX 9 Recalling a Sense of Place 106(1) A Sense of Place: Selective Perception 107(3) BOX 10 writing a Verbal Snapshot 110(2) Learning How to Look: Mapping Space 112(4) BOX 11 Mapping Space: A Meal in the Making 116(7) Learning How to Look: Finding a Focal Point 123(3) BOX 12 Finding a Focal Point 126(1) Learning How to Look: Identifying Unity and Tension 127(3) Learning How to Look: Colonized Spaces 130(3) Jamaica Kincaid On Seeing England for the First Time 133(4) The Research Portfolio: Learning from the Your Data 137(12) Karen Downing Strike a Pose 162(1) Portfolio Reflection: A Pose on Strike a Pose 162(1) FieldWriting: The Grammar of Observation 163(4) FieldWords 167(1) FieldReading 167(2) CHAPTER 4 Researching Language: The Cultural Translator 169(46) Researching Language: Linking Body and Culture 170(2) Researching Language: Linking Word and Culture 172(4) BOX 13 Listening for the Word: Creating a Glossary 176(2) Researching Occupation: Recording Insider Language 178(2) BOX 14 Describing Insider Language: Occupational Terms 180(1) Researching Verbal Performance: The Curse and the Culture 181(3) Rebecca Rule Yankee Curse 184(4) BOX 15 Gathering Verbal Art: Proverbs, Jokes, and Sayings 188(2) Researching Verbal Performance: Urban Legends 190(1) Jan Harald Brunvand The Roommates Death 190(6) BOX 16 Collecting Urban Folk Tales 196(1) Reading the Story: A Fairy Tale for Our Time 197(2) Jack Zipes A Fairy Tale for Our Time 199(2) The Research Portfolio: Synthesis 201(2) Taping and Transcribing 203(3) FieldWriting: Language on the Page 206(6) FieldWords 212(1) FieldReading 212(3) CHAPTER 5 Researching People: The Collaborative Listener 215(62) Gathering Family Stories 216(3) Maxine Hong Kingston No Name Woman 219(8) BOX 17 Writing a Family Story 227(2) One Family Story: The Core and Its Variants 229(3) BOX 18 Stories and Variants 232(1) The Interview: Learning to Ask 233(2) BOX 19 Using a Cultural Artifact: An Interview 235(2) The Interview: Learning to Listen 237(3) BOX 20 Establishing Rapport 240(2) Cindie Marshall Ralphs Sports Bar 242(16) BOX 21 Analyzing Your Interviewing Skills 258(1) Gathering Oral Histories 259(1) Jennette Edwards I Can Read and I Can Write 260(4) BOX 22 Starting an Oral History 264(1) Steve Vanderstaay Tanya 265(1) The Informants Perspective: An Anthropologist on Mars 266(2) Oliver Sacks An Anthropologist on Mars 268(2) The Research Portfolio: Documentation 270(2) FieldWriting: From Details to Verbal Portraiture 272(3) FieldWords 275(1) FieldReading 275(2) CHAPTER 6 FieldWriting: From Talk to Text 277(40) Planning and Unplanning: From Hanging Out to Informal Writing 280(2) Peter Elbow Freewriting 282(7) Writing about the Other: Drafting Twin Tales 289(2) Donal M. Murray Where Do You Find Your Stories? 291(6) Culture on the Page: The Rhetoric and Aesthetics of Representation 297(1) Culture on the Page: Drafting a Text 298(1) Bonnie S. Sunstein Getting the Words Second Hand 299(5) Culture on the Page: Strategies 304(1) Culture on the Page: Revising, Editing, and Polishing 305(1) Anne Lamott Shitty First Drafts 306(6) Donald M. Murray Some Notes on Revision 312(2) A Final Comment 314(1) FieldReading 314(3) Works Cited 317(4) Credits 321(4) Index 325
