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To the Instructor | |
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To the Student | |
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Stepping In and Stepping Out: Understanding Cultures | |
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Defining Culture: Fieldwork and Ethnography | |
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Stepping In: Revealing Our Subcultures | |
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Looking at Subcultures | |
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Investigating Perspectives: Insider and Outsider | |
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Stepping Out: Making the Familiar Strange and the Strange Familiar | |
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"Body Ritual among the Nacirema" | |
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Making the Ordinary Extraordinary | |
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Posing Questions: Ethnographic vs. Journalistic | |
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"Church Opens Doors to Vietnamese" | |
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Engaging the Ethnographic Perspective | |
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"Survivor Begins Campus Life: Tsunami Aftermath," Staff writer, Bangkok Post | |
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FieldWorking with This Book | |
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An Ethnographic Study: "Friday Night at Iowa 80" | |
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"Friday Night at Iowa 80: The Truck Stop as Community and Culture" (Student Project) | |
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A Community Action Study: "House for the Homeless" | |
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"House for the Homeless: A Place to Hang Your Hat" (Student Project) | |
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In the Community | |
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Groundwork Activity | |
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The Research Portfolio: Definitions and Purpose | |
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FieldWriting: Establishing a Voice | |
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FieldCritique: Reflection | |
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Writing Self, Writing Cultures: Understanding FieldWriting | |
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Considering Self | |
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"Freewriting" | |
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Exploratory Writing | |
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Considering Audiences | |
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Considering Voice | |
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"On Keeping a Notebook" | |
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Exploratory Notetaking | |
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Getting at the Details | |
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"Look at Your Fish" | |
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Double-Entry Notes | |
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Fieldnotes: the Key to Your Project | |
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Organizing Your Fieldnotes | |
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Sharing Your Initial Fieldnotes | |
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Analyzing Your Fieldnotes | |
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Questioning Your Fieldnotes | |
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"Feng-Shui: Reflections on a Sociology Class" (Student Project) | |
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In the Community | |
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Groundwork Activity | |
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The Research Portfolio: Reflecting on Your Fieldnotes | |
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FieldWriting: Point of View | |
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FieldCritique: Understanding Your Understanding | |
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Reading Self, Reading Cultures: Understanding Texts | |
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"Mama Day" | |
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Responding to Text | |
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Reading Cultures as Text and Texts as Culture | |
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From Ethos to Ethics (by Julie Cheville) | |
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Positioning: Reading and Writing about Yourself | |
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Positioning Yourself | |
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Understanding Positioning: Checking in on Yourself | |
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Unlearning Our Privilege (by Mimi Harvey) | |
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Getting Permission | |
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Reading an Object: The Cultural Artifact | |
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Reading an Artifact | |
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The Uses of Cultural Artifacts | |
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"Everyday Use" | |
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Reading Ethnography and Media Cultures | |
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Fieldworking Book Clubs (by Kathleen Ryan) | |
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Reading Electronic Communities | |
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"Confessions of a Blog Addict" (Student Project) | |
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In the Community | |
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Groundwork Activity | |
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The Research Portfolio: Options for Reading | |
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FieldWriting: Published and Unpublished Written Sources | |
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FieldCritique: Responding to Reading | |
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Researching Place: The Spatial Gaze | |
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A Sense of Place: Personal Geography | |
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"On Seeing England for the First Time" | |
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Recalling a Sense of Place | |
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A Sense of Place: Selective Perception | |
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Writing a Verbal Snapshot | |
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"Travel Journal: Brazil" | |
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Learning How to Look: Mapping Space | |
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Mapping Space | |
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Learning How to Look: Finding a Focal Point | |
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Finding a Focal Point | |
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Learning How to Look: Identifying Unity and Tension | |
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"Strike a Pose" (Student Project) | |
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Learning How to Look: Colonized Spaces | |
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"The Happy Canyon" (Student Project) | |
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In the Community | |
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Groundwork Activity | |
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The Research Portfolio: Learning from Your Data | |
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"A Pose on 'Strike a Pose'" (portfolio reflection) | |
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FieldWriting: The Grammar of Observation | |
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FieldCritique: Capturing Cultural Implications | |
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Researching People: The Collaborative Listener | |
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The Interview: Learning How to Ask | |
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Using a Cultural Artifact in an Interview | |
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Learning How to Listen | |
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"The Man Who Forgets Nothing" | |
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Establishing Rapport | |
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Taping and Transcribing | |
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"Ralph's Sports Bar" (Student Project) | |
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Analyzing Your Interviewing Skills | |
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Gathering Oral Histories | |
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"I Can Read and I Can Write" | |
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Starting an Oral History | |
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The Informant's Perspective: "An Anthropologist on Mars" | |
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"An Anthropologist on Mars" | |
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Gathering Family Stories | |
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Writing a Family Story | |
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One Family Story: The Core and Its Variants | |
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Stories and Variants | |
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In the Community | |
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Groundwork Activity | |
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The Research Portfolio: Reflective Documentation | |
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FieldWriting: From Details to Verbal Portraiture | |
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FieldCritique: Revisiting Your Stories | |
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Researching Language: The Cultural Translator | |
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Linking Body Language and Culture | |
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Linking Words and Culture | |
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"Cheek" | |
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Listening for Words: Creating a Glossary | |
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Noticing Words | |
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"A Far-Off Affair" | |
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Interviewing | |
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Researching Occupation: Recording Insider Language | |
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Describing Occupational Terms | |
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Verbal Performance: Curses | |
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Gathering Verbal Performances: Proverbs, Jokes, and Sayings | |
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Resesarching Urban Legends | |
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Reseasrching Stories and Storytelling | |
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"In Roadville and in Trackton" | |
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In the Community | |
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Groundwork Activity | |
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The Research Portfolio: Synthesis | |
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FieldWriting: Dialogue on the Page | |
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FieldCritique: Working with Language | |
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Researching Archives: Locating Culture | |
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Family Archives | |
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A Box about Boxes | |
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"Slaves in the Family" | |
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Organizing Archival Material | |
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Framing Time: Synchronic and Diachronic Organization (by Lia Schultz) | |
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Historical Archives | |
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Museum Archives | |
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Sorting through Public Archives | |
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"The Attic and its Nails" (poem) | |
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Alternative Archives | |
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"On Dumpster Diving" | |
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Electronic Archives: Using the Internet | |
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"A Comic-Book Search," (Student Project) | |
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Finding Your Way in the Online Forest | |
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"Playing in the MUD: A Newbie's Experience with Online Gaming" (Student Project) | |
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In the Community | |
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Groundwork Activity | |
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The Research Portfolio: Representing the Unflat Stuff | |
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FieldWriting: Annotated Bibliographies | |
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FieldCritique: A Project Archive | |
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FieldWriting: From Down Draft to Up Draft | |
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Resisting Writing | |
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Drafting Drafts | |
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"Shitty First Drafts" | |
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Questioning Your Draft | |
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Thickening Your Draft | |
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Listening to the Voices in Your Draft (by David Seitz) | |
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"Toolbox" | |
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Culture on the Page: The Experience, Rhetoric, and Aesthetics of Representation | |
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Crafting a Text | |
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"Getting the Words Second Hand" | |
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Sharing Data: Partners in Revision | |
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Revising for a Reader | |
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"Some Notes on Revision" | |
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In the Community | |
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Groundwork Activity | |
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The Research Portfolio: One-Page Analysis and Annotated Table of Contents | |
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FieldWriting: Analytical Section Headings | |
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FieldCritique: Paying Attention to Writing | |
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A Final Comment | |
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MLA Documentation Guidelines | |
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APA Documentation Guidelines | |
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Works Cited and Recommended Reading | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |