Ethnography
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Ethnography Project
With this observation project, the goal is to get out of your comfort zone and go into places we have never been before. We should come to an understanding of a particular ritual which is being done rather we agree with it or not. The ritual I have chosen is attending a strip club. In a strip club there are performers who take off their clothing while dancing to music. The performers get paid through tips they get from their customers. For the performers it is an occupation and for the customers it is enjoyment.
This ritual does interest me but only by a small amount. Over the years strip clubs have become extremely popular and recently straight females are attending these clubs to watch female strippers. This information spikes my interest because a lot of my female friends attend women strip clubs and absolutely loves it. They say it is better then males. I would like to know why.
Strip clubs are world wide and accepted by multiple cultures. Depending on the area and which strip club you attend there are different rules. Other forms of this ritual are burlesque dancing and go go dancers. In order to complete this ethnography of this ritual I had to research its history as well as its current standing. Once I attended the club first hand and interviewed and observed the interactions and scenery, I had to analyze the significance of a strip club.
The first North American style strip club came about after World War II, Asia in the late 1940’s, and Europe in 1950. Though the word “strip tease” was created in 1938, the act of stripping can be traced back over 400 years ago. The possible influences of this style of dancing may have possibly first came from the French’s’ visit in Northern Africa and Egypt. While there they watched a woman search for an imaginary bee in her clothing. While she was searching for this bee in an afraid manner, she was removing her clothing piece by piece. The French
Ethnography Project
With this observation project, the goal is to get out of your comfort zone and go into places we have never been before. We should come to an understanding of a particular ritual which is being done rather we agree with it or not. The ritual I have chosen is attending a strip club. In a strip club there are performers who take off their clothing while dancing to music. The performers get paid through tips they get from their customers. For the performers it is an occupation and for the customers it is enjoyment.
This ritual does interest me but only by a small amount. Over the years strip clubs have become extremely popular and recently straight females are attending these clubs to watch female strippers. This information spikes my interest because a lot of my female friends attend women strip clubs and absolutely loves it. They say it is better then males. I would like to know why.
Strip clubs are world wide and accepted by multiple cultures. Depending on the area and which strip club you attend there are different rules. Other forms of this ritual are burlesque dancing and go go dancers. In order to complete this ethnography of this ritual I had to research its history as well as its current standing. Once I attended the club first hand and interviewed and observed the interactions and scenery, I had to analyze the significance of a strip club.
The first North American style strip club came about after World War II, Asia in the late 1940’s, and Europe in 1950. Though the word “strip tease” was created in 1938, the act of stripping can be traced back over 400 years ago. The possible influences of this style of dancing may have possibly first came from the French’s’ visit in Northern Africa and Egypt. While there they watched a woman search for an imaginary bee in her clothing. While she was searching for this bee in an afraid manner, she was removing her clothing piece by piece. The French
Citations: 1. Website Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_club#Bibliography