10 Ethnographies Speech is used in different ways among different groups of people. As we will see‚ each group has its own norms of linguistic behavior. A particular group may not encourage talking for the sake of talking‚ and members of such a group may appear to be quite taciturn to outsiders who relish talk‚ or they may feel overwhelmed by the demands made on them if those others insist on talking. In contrast‚ in another group talk may be encouraged to the extent that it may even appear to be
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Cultural Scene Ethnography My observation takes place in an Emergency Room in a local hospital. The waiting room is a thirty-by-forty room with white walls and a dusty rose counter‚ the television sets blared from each end of the room. A drunken man wearing a woolen cap kept breaking into song and new people walked in every few minutes. Behind the counter there are three secretary calling people names. In the waiting area the people whisper and fidget constantly. Female patients often cross
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Wacquant also followed the anthropological method of participant observation and the creation of an ethnography‚ despite some notable differences in the scope of his research. While Malinowski traveled across the world and immersed himself fully in the foreign culture of the Trobriand Islanders‚ living in their homes and learning their language‚ Wacquant stayed within Western society‚ living in his own city and residing in his own home. Despite this‚ however‚ Loïc Wacquant still managed to immerse
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ENG 4010 The Ethnography Project Assignment Ethnography is the recording of observations. The subjects of the recordings draw upon social interactions and relationships‚ hence‚ the close association of ethnography with sociology. Instructions For this project‚ you will select a socio-linguistic group—a specific community of language users. Your task is to observe 1) the arena(s) of language use‚ and 2) record examples of miscommunication. Selection of a Socio-Linguistic Community Identify a venue
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For example‚ I have found a few sample stories that relate to my topic. One story is “Public and Private Language” by an author named‚ Richard Rodriguez‚ who describes a young boy who came from Spanish decent‚ and was having a hard time learning how to speak
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Growing up‚ I was never told much about my birth‚ only that I was large. I was raised in a single parent household and I was pushed out into the world to develop and learn many different things about life. Being born in the 90s‚ I would have thought more diverse worldwide events would have occurred. While researching the date I was born and the various years‚ I found quite a bit of criminal activity involved in the articles I found. Although my birth was the happiest day for some‚ it was possibly
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Passionate Musician With A Humble Beginning A music background can come from any one individual or a group of individuals with the desire to create music. Dominic Facciponte a native of Syracuse‚ New York and a good friend of mine‚ who currently attends Hobart College as a Biology major and also plays lacrosse‚ is a talented drummer who was apart of a high school band. Although his life path and career path he chose is not in the Music Industry or involved with music‚ Dominic still has a deep
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Incense and Basketball in a Strange Place As I was coming flying to Hawaii in my beat up old space ship I saw the most beautiful flowing river and mountains and I knew I had to stop and explore. I landed in a large field and got out of the ship. The first thing I noticed was an interesting skunk smell hanging in the air‚ but I couldn’t tell where it was coming from because no one else was around. I could see some sort of civilization off in the distance‚ so I started hiking through a thick forest
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The setting I choose to do my ethnography assignment on was to observe an indoor soccer game in Yuba City. The arena where this indoor soccer game took place was named Champions Arena Indoor Soccer. This was not the first time I have been to this arena so I did have some background about the place before observing. One of my close friends was participating in the game so I figured it was a great idea to come support him and do my assignment. Although‚ I had been to this arena before and seen many
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Fieldwork assignment #2: Museum Ethnography I have always been interested in Japanese culture and traditions‚ so for my museum ethnography assignment I visited the American Museum of Natural History‚ where I chose the Stout Hall of Asian Peoples for further analyzing. Japanese culture is a very unique one‚ which differs from others; anthropologists refer to it as “a style”. There are a lot of interesting exhibits in the wing I chose; they all have different stories to tell. It was impossible to
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