FieldWorking : Reading and Writing Research

by Bonnie Stone Sunstein, Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater

• ISBN13: 9780312258252
• ISBN10: 0312258259
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-11-09
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Table of Contents

To the Instructor	vii
To the Student	xiii
Stepping In and Stepping Out: Understanding Cultures	1	(54)
Defining Culture: Fieldwork and Ethnography	2	(2)
Stepping In: Revealing Our Subcultures	4	(3)
Looking at Subcultures	6	(1)
Investigating Perspectives: Insider and Outsider	7	(2)
Stepping Out: Making the Familiar Strange and the Strange Familiar	9	(7)
``Body Ritual among the Nacirema''	10	(5)
Horace Miner
Making the Ordinary Extraordinary	15	(1)
Posing Questions: Ethnographic and Journalistic	16	(7)
``Church Opens Doors to Vietnamese''	17	(3)
Byron Brown
Engaging the Ethnographic Perspective	20	(3)
FieldWorking with This Book	23	(1)
An Ethnographic Study: ``Friday Night at Iowa 80''	24	(19)
``Friday Night at Iowa 80: The Truck Stop as Community and Culture''	26	(17)
Rick Zollo
The Research Portfolio: Definitions and Purpose	43	(2)
FieldWriting: Establishing a Voice	45	(5)
FieldWords	50	(1)
FieldReading	51	(1)
FieldPoem	52	(1)
``Self and Other''	52	(1)
Sal Biondello
Commentary	53	(2)
Sarah Townsend
Writing Self, Writing Cultures: Understanding FieldWriting	55	(50)
Considering Self	58	(6)
``Freewriting''	58	(5)
Peter Elbow
Exploratory Writing	63	(1)
Considering Audiences	64	(5)
``Boy Scouts, Hobbyists, and Indians''	66	(3)
Luke E. Lassiter
Considering Voice	69	(10)
``On Keeping a Notebook''	71	(6)
Joan Didion
Exploratory Notetaking	77	(2)
Considering Fieldnotes	79	(6)
Sharing Your Initial Fieldnotes	83	(2)
Considering Details	85	(10)
``Look at Your Fish''	88	(5)
Samuel H. Scudder
Double-Entry Notes	93	(2)
Considering Analysis	95	(3)
Questioning Your Fieldnotes	96	(2)
The Research Portfolio: Reflecting on Your Fieldnotes	98	(1)
FieldWriting: Point of View	99	(2)
FieldWords	101	(1)
FieldReading	102	(1)
FieldPoem	103	(1)
``Education by Stone''	103	(1)
Joao Cabral de Melo Neto
Commentary	104	(1)
Hillary Gardner
Reading Self, Reading Cultures: Understanding Texts	105	(54)
``Mama Day''	107	(6)
Gloria Naylor
Responding to Text	113	(2)
Reading Cultures as Text and Text as Culture	115	(3)
From Ethos to Ethics	116	(2)
Julie Cheville
Positioning: Reading and Writing about Yourself	118	(4)
Positioning Yourself	120	(2)
Understanding Positioning: Checking in on Yourself	122	(2)
Negotiating the Ethics of Entry	124	(4)
Reading an Object: The Cultural Artifact	128	(5)
Reading an Artifact	131	(2)
Reading Everyday Use: The Uses of Cultural Artifacts	133	(8)
``Everyday Use''	134	(7)
Alice Walker
Reading Ethnography and Media Cultures	141	(3)
Fieldworking Book Clubs	142	(2)
Kathleen Ryan
Reading Electronic Communities	144	(3)
The Research Portfolio: Options for Reflection	147	(2)
FieldWriting: Published and Unpublished Written Sources	149	(5)
FieldWords	154	(1)
FieldReading	154	(1)
FieldPoem	155	(1)
``The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently''	155	(1)
Thomas Lux
Commentary	156	(3)
Todd McKinney
Researching Archives: Locating Culture	159	(58)
Family Archives	161	(8)
``Slaves in the Family''	166	(3)
Edward Ball
Institutional Archives	169	(4)
A Box about Boxes	172	(1)
Museum Archives	173	(10)
``Ball Jars''	176	(5)
Garrison Keillor
Sorting through Public Archives	181	(2)
Electronic Archives: The World Wide Web	183	(14)
``A Comic-Book Search''	187	(8)
Sarah Townsend
Finding Your Way in the Online Forest	195	(2)
Using FieldWork to Suggest Webwork	197	(11)
``House for the Homeless: A Place to Hang Your Hat''	197	(11)
Ivana Nikolic
The Research Portfolio: Representing the Unflat Stuff	208	(3)
FieldWriting: Annotated Bibliographies	211	(1)
FieldWords	212	(1)
FieldReading	213	(1)
FieldPoem	214	(1)
``The Attic and Its Nails''	214	(1)
Naomi Shihab Nye
Commentary	215	(2)
Alison Barnes
Researching Place: The Spatial Gaze	217	(76)
A Sense of Place: Personal Geography	218	(7)
``South by Southwest''	220	(3)
William Least Heat-Moon
Recalling a Sense of Place	223	(2)
A Sense of Place: Selective Perception	225	(5)
Writing a Verbal Snapshot	228	(2)
Learning How to Look: Mapping Space	230	(11)
Mapping Space: A Meal in the Making	233	(8)
Learning How to Look: Finding a Focal Point	241	(4)
Finding a Focal Point	244	(1)
Learning How to Look: Identifying Unity and Tension	245	(20)
``Strike a Pose''	247	(18)
Karen Downing
Learning How to Look: Colonized Spaces	265	(8)
``On Seeing England for the First Time''	267	(6)
Jamaica Kincaid
The Research Portfolio: Learning from Your Data	273	(12)
A Pose on ``Strike a Pose''	284	(1)
Karen Downing
FieldWriting: The Grammar of Observation	285	(4)
FieldWords	289	(1)
FieldReading	289	(1)
FieldPoem	290	(2)
``Scouting''	290	(2)
Philip Levine
Commentary	292	(1)
Stacy Clovis
Researching Language: The Cultural Translator	293	(52)
Researching Language: Linking Body and Culture	294	(2)
Researching Language: Linking Word and Culture	296	(8)
Listening for ``The Word'': Creating a Glossary	302	(2)
Researching Occupation: Recording Insider Language	304	(4)
Describing Insider Language: Occupational Terms	306	(2)
Taping and Transcribing	308	(2)
Researching Verbal Performance: The Curse and the Culture	310	(5)
Gathering Verbal Art: Proverbs, Jokes, and Sayings	313	(2)
Researching Verbal Performance: Urban Legends	315	(10)
``The Roommate's Death''	316	(5)
Jan Harald Brunvand
Collecting Urban Folk Tales	321	(4)
Researching Stories: Discovering Difference	325	(11)
``In Roadville and in Trackton''	325	(11)
Shirley Brice Heath
The Research Portfolio: Synthesis	336	(3)
FieldWriting: Dialogue on the Page	339	(2)
FieldWords	341	(1)
FieldReading	342	(1)
FieldPoem	343	(1)
``Comment on Ethnopoetics and Literacy''	343	(1)
Wendy Rose
Commentary	344	(1)
Carol Mimi Harvey
Researching People: The Collaborative Listener	345	(72)
Gathering Family Stories	346	(16)
``No Name Woman''	349	(10)
Maxine Hong Kingston
Writing a Family Story	359	(3)
One Family Story: The Core and Its Variants	362	(6)
Stories and Variants	365	(3)
The Interview: Learning to Ask	368	(6)
Using a Cultural Artifact: An Interview	370	(4)
The Interview: Learning How to Listen	374	(19)
Establishing Rapport	376	(3)
``Ralph's Sports Bar''	379	(12)
Cindie Marshall
Analyzing Your Interviewing Skills	391	(2)
Gathering Oral Histories	393	(9)
``I Can Read and I Can Write''	395	(4)
Jennette Edwards
Starting an Oral History	399	(3)
The Informant's Perspective: ``An Anthropologist on Mars''	402	(5)
``An Anthropologist on Mars''	404	(3)
Oliver Sacks
The Research Portfolio: Reflective Documentation	407	(2)
FieldWriting: From Details to Verbal Portraiture	409	(3)
FieldWords	412	(1)
FieldReading	412	(1)
FieldPoem	413	(2)
``Why We Tell Stories''	413	(2)
Lisel Mueller
Commentary	415	(2)
Dan Albergotti
FieldWriting: From Down Draft to Up Draft	417	(58)
Resisting Writing	419	(1)
Drafting Drafts	420	(5)
``Shitty First Drafts''	421	(4)
Anne Lamott
Questioning Your Draft	425	(12)
``On the Line''	428	(9)
Sam Samuels
Thickening Your Draft	437	(10)
Listening to the Voices in Your Draft	445	(2)
David Seitz
Culture on the Page: The Experience, Rhetoric, and Aesthetics of Representation	447	(3)
Crafting a Text	450	(8)
``Getting the Words Second Hand: Deaf People Can Do Everything---Except Hear''	450	(8)
Bonnie S. Sunstein
Thinking about Linking	458	(4)
Sharing Data: Partners in Revision	459	(3)
Revising for a Reader	462	(3)
``Some Notes on Revision''	462	(3)
Donald M. Murray
The Research Portfolio: One-Page Analysis and Annotated Table of Contents	465	(3)
FieldWriting: Analytic Section Headings	468	(2)
FieldWords	470	(1)
FieldReading	471	(1)
FieldPoem	472	(1)
``Perhaps the World Ends Here''	472	(1)
Joy Harjo
Commentary	472	(1)
Dale Allender
A Final Comment	473	(2)
Appendix A: MLA Documentation Guidelines	475	(8)
Appendix B: APA Documentation Guidelines	483	(6)
Works Cited	489	(8)
Index	497