FieldMethods2021

  Using Images: Documentary Photography and Ethnography Assignment: Take three or four pictures of a scene and write a descriptive narrative of the cultural moment that you have recorded.Your goal is to give a sense of the culture that you are about to describe through this situated moment in time. Example Below

  Field Experiences: 1. Guatemala & Yucatan 2. Belize 3. Beach Channel (LI) & New Orleans 4. USA Communities -Working in familiar and unfamiliar environments -Working as an outsider/insider -establishing rapport -sticky situations ·       Ethics informants academic community funders ·       The problem with power and the researcher’s “gaze” ·       Protecting your informants: remembering who you work for ·       Jealousies and disturbances -Combatting “Observer’s Bias” (GUMPERZ) ·       Group interviewing ·       The “aside” ·       Creating relationships of trust -Recording and writing up Experiences in the field— ·       Keeping the peace ·       Catch 22s ·       The epiphany of the “other” ·       Between Class clown to town idiot Emic perspective—getting at voice/person/identity ·       Using    personal narrative ·       Biography and life history ·       Validating memory ·       Validating the individual experience Choosing a focused theme from the journals/notes etc ·