RJ #24
1. Read and respond to Chapter 8 in FieldWorking. Talk about what you can use to develop a working draft of your ethnographic project. What are your plans for your final ethnographic project? Outline it.
2. Develop another (revised) annotated Table of Contents that lists everything you’ve collected thus far (see more in FW, page 463 and an example on page 414-415). This list should be much longer and more detailed than previous lists.
3. Develop a One-Page Analysis that offers a portrait of your study thus far. What are the important items or recurring themes emerging from your study thus far? How doe these fit together? How do these themes and relationships fit into the larger structure of your study? In other words, what might this study actually mean? You probably won’t know enough to answer the last question, but begin projecting. What might it mean? Also use this short analysis to think through what else you might need to do/know. What does this analysis suggest you need to do next? To find out next? To observe next? Another interview or so? With whom and why? What will be the focus? Another set of field observations or so? Where/how/why? Outside reading that might complement your study and help you make sense of it? Additional artifacts? Of course you’ll need all of this, but think through what’s next by reviewing your study thus far.
4. Further nuance your codebook. You’ll be turning in a revised version of all of this as WA5 later in the week.
