ISBN:
080325623X
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9780803256231
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xv, 256 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Negotiating cultures and identities
DDC:
305.80072
Keywords:
Ethnology Methodology
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Ethnology Methodology
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Ethnology Methodology
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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Ethnology ; Methodology
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
"Negotiating Cultures and Identities examines issues, methods, and models for doing life history research with individual Americans based on interviews and participant observation. John L. Caughey helps students and other researchers explore the ways in which contemporary Americans are influenced by multiple cultural traditions, including ethnic, religious, and occupational frames of reference. Using the example of Salma, a bicultural woman of Pakistani descent who lives in the United States, and the story of Gina, a multicultural American, Caughey examines how to capture the complexity of each situation, including step-by-step methods and exercises that lead the student interviewer through the process of locating and interviewing a research participant, making sense of the material obtained, and writing a cultural portrait. Arguing that comparison between the subject's life and one's own is an essential part of the process, the methodology also encourages the investigator to research his or her own social and cultural orientations along the way and to contrast these with those of the subject. The book offers a practical, manageable, and engaging form of qualitative research. It prepares the student to do grounded, experiential work outside the classroom and to explore important issues in contemporary American society, including ethnicity, race, identity, disability, gender, class, occupation, religion, and spirituality as they are culturally understood and experienced in the lives of individual Americans. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET
Abstract:
4. Lessons on the Road: The Life of a Hobo5. â#x80;#x9C;That Really Happenedâ#x80;#x9D;: Ethnography and the Hobby of Twentieth-Century War Reenacting; 6. A Chameleon-Like Approach: Successful Negotiations of MultipleCultural Traditions; 7. The Sound of It Stayed in My Ears: Life History with AfricanAmerican Domestics; 8. My Mexican Friend Marta Who Lives Across the Border from Me in Detroit; 9. Routes to Identity: Life History Dialogues on Race and Adoption; Notes; Suggestions for Further Reading; Contributors; Index.
Abstract:
Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Exercises; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: Issues and Methods in Life History; Introduction: salmaâ#x80;#x99;s stories; 1. Individuals and Their Cultures; 2. Methods in Life History Research; 3. Individual Identities, Multiple Cultures; 4. Negotiating Conflicting Cultures and Competing Values; 5. Writing Multiple Cultures in Life History; Part 2: Readings in Life History; Introduction; 1. Being Indian in America: My Ethnic Roots and Me; 2. Conversations with Paolo; 3. Needle and Thread: The Life and Death of a Tailor.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-250) and index. - Description based on print version record
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