For you blog for next Tuesday, please review a cultural event of some sort. As you do this, play with your voice. Perhaps you will need to write it out as you normally would and then revise to do this. Consider other qualities of voice beyond point of view. What type of personality do you want to portray in this review. Try on a personality that is radically different from your own. Make sure you spend at least one good paragraph relating details of the cultural event: sights, sounds, smells, plotlines. Then evaluate it. What is your response to it? Why?
Other work on the horizon:
- You should have completed the IRB training online and made a possible consent form by now. Share your consent form with a partner via email or blackboard and get feedback. (is it clear what the subject is consenting to? What questions are raised?) Bring it to class Tuesday revised, and we will work with it a bit more.
- Do Box 16 ( a verbal snapshot) in relation to your fieldsite (or one of them). Also do Box 17.
- Write a short list of candidates for an interview relating to your fieldwork: rank them. Then set up a timetable for yourself: how soon will you get permission? How soon will you interview? How soon will you obtain audio recording tools (or video), if you need them? Check out the DALN website (linked on blackboard) and see what kinds of narratives are there and what their guidelines are. They also have consent forms.
- Read in CH. 4 of Fieldworking: pp. 175-6; 184-203)
- Read Ch. 3 of A Thrice Told Tale; these are her fieldnotes, recorded by an assistant. Take notes as you read. What do you think of her notes and method? What would you do differently? What strategies might you borrow from her?
Lydia
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