2. WRITING IS MATERIAL:
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3. WRITING IS MATERIAL:
: physical. . . .
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4. WRITING IS MATERIAL:
: physical, historical. . . .
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5. WRITING IS MATERIAL:
: physical, historical, and social.
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6. SO FAR WE’VE PRACTICED . . .
. . . the interpretation of artifacts. . . .
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7. SO FAR WE’VE PRACTICED . . .
. . . the interpretation of artifacts and the writing of
history.
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8. ETHNOGRAPHY COMBINES APPROACHES
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9. ETHNOGRAPHY COMBINES APPROACHES
To practice ethnography is to interpret social
interactions as live action, improvisatory, participatory
cultural artifacts, created by the humans performing
in them and sponsored larger social agents, i.e.,
institutions, forces, groups, etc.
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10. ETHNOGRAPHY AND MODERNITY:
Colonialism, the “New World,” and the Rise of the
Social sciences
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11. ETHNOGRAPHY AS A GENRE OF WRITING:
Thick description + close reading.
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12. LET’S PRACTICE!
The Driscoll Bridge as cultural artifact:
• Who are the “performers”?
• What are they doing, alone and with one another?
• What are the pertinent elements of the setting?
• What larger social agents are sponsoring the “performance”?
• What does the performance mean, i.e., what does it tell us
about how and why the “performers” interact with one
another and their “sponsors” in the way that they do?
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