The Cultural Experience : Ethnography In Complex Society

To the Instructor vii Part I: Doing Ethnography 1(100) Culture and Ethnography 3(10) Culture 5(4) What Is Culture? 5(1) Attributes of Culture 6(2) Kinds of Culture 8(1) Ethnography 9(4) What Is Ethnography? 9(1) Naive Realism 9(1) Ethnocentrism 10(1) Subjects, Respondents, and Informants 10(3) Microcultures 13(8) What Are Microcultures? 13(3) Locating and Choosing a Microculture 16(5) Cultural Informants 21(12) Locating Cultural Informants 22(3) Find an Informant You Already Know 22(1) Find an Informant ``Cold Turkey'' 23(1) Find an Informant through a Go-Between 23(2) Attributes of a Good Informant 25(1) One Informant or Many? 26(1) Identifying Yourself and Explaining the Project 27(1) Controlling Anxiety 28(1) Recording Ethnographic Field Data 28(1) Ethical Responsibilities 29(4) Human Subjects Research Requirements 29(4) Discovering Folk Terms 33(10) The First Interview 34(4) Explaining the Research 34(1) Asking Descriptive Questions 35(3) Descriptive Questions 38(2) Field Notes 40(1) Preliminary Analysis 41(2) Discovering Taxonomic Structure 43(14) Taxonomic Structure 43(5) Domains 43(1) Taxonomies 44(2) Semantic Relationships 46(1) Design Principles of a Taxonomy 47(1) Eliciting Taxonomies 48(3) Step 1: Analyzing Field Notes 48(2) Step 2: Asking Structural Questions 50(1) Troubleshooting for Errors in Taxonomies 51(3) Bad Spots 51(1) Compound Taxonomies 52(2) Why Collect Taxonomies? 54(3) Discovering Meaning 57(10) Attributional Meaning 57(2) Discovering and Displaying Attributional Meaning 59(8) Identifying Contrast Sets 59(1) Constructing a Paradigm 60(1) Checking for Attributes in Your Field Notes 61(2) Asking Attribute Questions 63(2) Culture or Personal Meaning? 65(2) Ethnographic Detail and Cultural Focus 67(10) Eliciting Ethnographic Detail 67(7) Focusing the Ethnography 74(3) Cultural Themes and Cultural Adaptation 77(6) Cultural Themes 77(2) Discovering Themes 79(1) Cultural Strategies 80(3) Writing and Using Ethnography 83(18) Writing the Ethnography 83(10) Cultural Representation 84(1) Writing and Ethics 85(1) Audience 85(1) Choosing a Thesis 86(1) Parts of a Paper 87(3) Using Taxonomies and Paradigms 90(1) Using Quotes 91(2) Ethnographic Research and Uses 93(4) Research Abroad 93(1) Problem-Based Ethnography 93(4) Bibliography 97(4) Part II: Student Ethnographies 101 Getting the Truth: The Police Detective and the Art of Interviewing 103(9) Cole Akeson Juicing Their Way to the Top: Ethnography of a Tattoo Shop 112(9) Jennifer Boehlke No Money, No Honey: An Ethnography of Exotic Dancers 121(9) Melissa Cowell Where Did the Time Go?: A Look into a Jesuit Pastor's Struggle with Time 130(9) Meghan Greeley ``Alice in Wonderland'': The Culture of a Neighborhood Flower Shop 139(9) Sana Haque Dealing with Dickheads: An Ethnography of a Nightclub Staff Member 148(8) John Hoch Ethnography of a Legal Secretary 156(9) Jordan Pender Coping with Stress: An Ethnography of Firefighters 165(7) Alex Rubenstein The Modern Pest Control Revolution 172(7) Byron Thayer Catching Babies: An Ethnography of a Licensed, Traditional Midwife 179 Natasha Winegar