Ethnography

In what felt like a stumping search for something interesting to share about the uses of language in my family, I was reminded of an anonymous metaphor that easily relates to ethnography, “It is not the fish that discovers the water,” which recognizes the challenge of me as the fish to see the social world that surrounds me; ‘water’. Introspectively becoming that fish that does ‘discover’ the water that surround me in a socio-linguistic sense, I took a harder look at irregularities I had never…

For my mini-ethnography, I decided to choose Harold A Henry Park, a park that is in the middle of Windsor Village and has been apart of that community for a while now. I picked this park because it has a great deal of meaning to me and is my neighborhood park. I grew up only a block away from this lovely park which is in the middle of a residential area. I use to walk to the park almost everyday and play soccer or in the jungle gym with all the other little kids who lived in the area, this park…

talking about getting tattoos. She and I had been visiting different tattoo parlors trying to figure out where to go. This is what help me to decide to observe tattoos. I was not sure what I was getting myself into when I decided I would focus my ethnography on tattoos. I had a basic understanding of what tattoos were, but I did not know much else. I was scared that even though the artists had given me permission to come and observe, the client would not be comfortable. If the clients were not…

For my ethnography project I researched both sides of my families to gain a better understanding of their development through the life stages, how they deal with crisis and their parenting styles. Through personal family research, material learned in class and scholarly journals I will better explain my family and their history. From the beginning to end of this assignment I gained knowledge about my family that I did not know prior. To begin with I will discuss my parents and then elaborate…

rward by men. In order to facilitate this, feminist ethnography is a popular and beneficial method as it elucidates the feminine perspective and adds more valuable knowledge to the area of research. However feminist ethnography has a complex nature as it incorporates features of feminism as well as ethnography. This paper focuses on the essential qualities of a feminist research and shows how feminism can be incorporated into ethnography. There has been a critical analysis of a feminist e…

Critical Analysis of Ethnography: The StickupKids The StickupKids by Randol Contreras is an ethnography of mid to late 1990’s drug robbers in the Bronx, New York. Contreras studies a group of Dominican men who participate in violent robberies where they steal money and drugs from drug dealers and split the profits amongst themselves and their informants. He offers background into the lives of the main participants and tries to demonstrate to the reader how the people involved went from…

1) The range of ethnographies seem to neglect Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia. There seem to be a lot focusing on all parts of the world besides the poles and those I just mentioned. However, I believe the abandonment of ethnographies in those places could be a result of the lack of native people in those regions. Those regions have consisted of having strong, industrial societies and most anthropologist at that time study tribal societies; the tribes or societies that were illiterate…

help relieve it. This experience left me with three major questions; what is Chan Buddhism? ; Why do they choose to put themselves through intense discomfort while meditating? ; How do the people feel Chan Meditation effects their lives? For my ethnography project I decided to take the descriptive, interpretive approach. I used open-ended questions to…

I am applying to the Geography undergraduate program because of my recent interest in human-land relationships. My main goal for applying to this department is to pursue a career in cartography. My dad and I go to this motorcycle museum in the hill-country where all walks of life go in the late winter/ early spring months because of the American food and the Aussie owner. One specimen I was lucky enough to speak with relived his glory days as a geoscientist in Greenland. We did not have much…

Partograph is a graphical tool for recording and monitoring progress of the labor which was devised by Friedman in 1954 and improved by Philpott in the 1970s. It has three parts; foetal condition part, labour progress monitoring part and maternal condition part which are monitored and recorded during labour. A partograph should be started on women in active labour (when cervix is dilated 4cm, who have no complications that require immediate action, (Dutta 2013). Partograph helps midwives to…