Ethnographic Description

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The topography I chose for my city is to put the court, city hall, police station,and fire station toward the center and not far off from each other because they all work together. I also placed the jail far off from homes, churches, and buildings because no one enjoys being near a jail. I also placed my river running slightly diagonal and a lake on each side for proportionality. I also placed my factories near the low income housing because the factories need employees. I placed two highways one going vertical and other diagonal so there is a good and equal amount of transportation especially from the suburbs (middle class housing)to the central business district. The site of the high income housing is farthest from factories with more urban

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Tim Ingold's Use Of Ethnography

about ethnography with his objections and criticisms of what constitutes “ethnography”. He notes that the word “ethnographic”, as well as its lexical counterparts, have become so overused in the discipline of anthropology itself, as well as other disciplines within the social sciences, that it has gotten to the point of “doing great harm” (2014, 383). The overuse of the word “ethnographic” has gotten to the point that it has become synonymous with distinctly disciplinary processes such as fieldwork…

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Sidewalk Book Review

Life in the city is perplex when a book is what is worshipped. Sidewalk by Mitchell Duneier offers a visual portrait of a community in the shadows of public life. Duneier portrays the life of urban black men who infiltrated a stretch of lower Sixth Avenue. These men, frequently scavengers, vendors of used and discounted books and magazines that they find in the streets to make a living for themselves. Duneier follows the lives of these vendors for four decades to raise the awareness of the condition…

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Comparison Of Research Designs

University Comparison of Research Designs Template The following seven tables are part of a template that will guide you through the comparison of research designs assignment. The tables include: • Descriptions of basic research designs. • Types of basic research designs. • Main characteristics. • Followed steps. • Appropriate usage. • Purpose statement and sample questions. • Associated research paradigms. This template…

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Rony's The Third Eye

My presentation on students’ positions while studying for a test or working on homework was inspired by Fatimah Tobing Rony’s theory in her essay, The Third Eye on what filmmakers caught on film as basic evidence determining what the culture of African Americans, or “Savages” as they were called to people of color. Rony despised said filmmakers who were determined to film the lives of African Americans and their day-to-day routines only using their cameras as evidence of what they have filmed. What…

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Inuit Morality Play Summary

Book review: Inuit Morality Play: the Emotional Education of a Three-year-old. «I am not Chubby Maata. I did not have her accumulated store of thoughts and feelings with which to meet events, react to them, create them, and build on them. And not only did I not have Chubby Maata’s thoughts and feelings, I had a great many of my own, which certainly interfered with my perceiving hers accurately». (1998:17) The book «Inuit Morality Play: The emotional education of a three-year-old» (1998) is written…

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Study guide Essay

meaning. These are called ‘key symbols’ or ‘dominant symbols’. ETHNOGRAPHY: Ethnography refers to the description of cultural systems based on fieldwork in which the anthropologist is immersed in the ongoing everyday activities in order to describe the social context, relationships and processes relevant to the topic she is studying. Laura Bohannan, Shakespeare in the Bush Her ethnographic work among the Tiv helps her realize that everyone, including the Western anthropologist, has culture.…

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James Gilchrist Swan In Winter Brothers

and peoples with which he lived are described in depth, so it is as if Swan was working on an Ethnographic research and Doig’s narrative of him reveals those descriptions. Thus far, this text has been an excellent example of thick and rich descriptions of everyday life and Swan’s interpretations of it as seen through the prose and Doig’s perspective. “It is this interpretive characteristic of description rather than detail per se that makes it thick”…

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ABW07 238 Essays

about a population by studying a representative sample of the population.1 The population consists of the entire group being studied. It does not matter if the population is broad or narrow, only that it includes every individual that fits the description of the group being studied. Since it is impractical to conduct a census (include everyone in the population) because of constant turnover and resource constraints, a representative sample is chosen from the population. If chosen properly, the…

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Industry Vs. Inferiority And Identity Development In Middle School

to reform. A total of twenty predominantly low income, African American and Hispanic girls were included in the study. The method employed for addressing the question involved ethnographic case studies during the 2003-2005 school years. Through natural observation, data was collected, concentrating on detailed description of the subjects’ science practices, how subjects improved their science practices, the subjects’ learning of concepts taught in the “reform minded curriculum” (Barton et al., 2008)…

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Essay about value work

collected in 6 months, on different days of the week, and at varying times of day, provided a description of participants and the context of one 49-bed pediatric unit in a 774 bed not-for-profit hospital in southeastern United States. Narrative content analysis was done on the interview transcripts, documents, and field notes using procedures described by Strauss and Corbin (1990). The entire ethnographic record was read line-- by-line searching for words that describe the culture of nursing practice…

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