<h4>Ethnography Resources</h4> Students interested in learning more about field work as ethnography can consult this bibliography. From this list, three are pointed out as particularly helpful: H.F. Wolcott, Ethnography: a way of seeing. (Walnut Creek Alta Mira Press, 1999), and “Spotlight on Teaching: Teaching with Site Visits,” Religious Studies News (October 2004), vol. 19, n. 4. Although a bit dated, and primarily sociological, the Miller/Seltser book is overview of how to formulate and execute a social-scientific research project in religious studies, and includes succinct descriptions of key ideas like “participant observation” reported above. Among many on-line guides available, a web site by Barbara Hall of the University of Pennsylvania’s Public Interest Anthropology program provides additional perspectives and directions on the research suggestions provided above. A site focused on folklore, presents “...guidelines Smithsonian folklorists have developed over the years for collecting folklore and oral history from older tradition-bearers. It features a general guide to conducting an interview as well as a sample list of questions, which may be adapted to your own needs and circumstances. The site concludes with a few examples of ways to preserve and present your findings, and a selection of further readings.” Students interested in ethnographic film might start with Dr. Werner Sperschneider's power point presentation of theoretical and practical dimensions of this method. Barth, F., “A personal view of present tasks and priorities in cultural anthropology,” in: Robert Borofsky, Assessing cultural anthropology. Pp. 349- 361 (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994) Binder, T. “Setting the Stage for Improvised Video Scenarios,” in CHI’99 Extended Abstracts (Pittsburgh PA. ACM Press May 1999), pp. 230-231. Buur J. and Bødker S.: “From usability lab to "Design Collaboratorium": Reframing usability practice. “Submitted for DIS 2000, New York. Emerson, Robert M., ed., Contemporary Field Research: A Collection of Readings. Prospect Heights, Ill: Waveland Press, Inc. 1983; 2001) Emerson, Robert M. and Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw, Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995). Kassam, Tazim, ed., “Spotlight on Teaching: Teaching with Site Visits,” Religious Studies News (October 2004), vol. 19, n. 4. Kuper, A.: The invention of primitive society: Transformations of an illusion. (London: Routledge, 1988) Loflan and Lofland, Analyzing Social Settings (Wadsworth) Miller, Donald and Barry Seltser, Writing and Research in Religious Studies (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1992) McCracken, G. The Longer Interview (Sage) Orlove, Benjamin, “Surfacings: Thoughts on Memory and the Ethnographer’s Self,” in Jonathan Boyarin and Daniel Boyarin, eds., Jews and Other Differences: The New Jewish Cultural Studies (Minnesota, 1997) Pedersen, J. and Buur, J., “Games and Movies - Towards an Innovative Engagement with Users.” (Accepted for CoDesigning, UK, 2000) Sperschneider, W. “Filmportrait Fredrik Barth: from fieldwork to theory.” Institute for Scientific Film, Video, 60 min. Göttingen, 2000. Spradley, J. P.: Participant observation (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston,1980) Suchman, L.: Plans and Situated Actions: the problem of Human-Machine Communication. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987) Suchman, L., “Making Work Visible,” Communications of the ACM 38 (September 1995), 56-64, 1995. van Maanen, John, Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988) Wolcott, H. F.: The art of fieldwork. (Walnut Creek: Alta Mira Press, 1995) Wolcott, H. F., Ethnography: a way of seeing. (Walnut Creek: Alta Mira Press, 1999) |
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