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Ethnography ○ A particular kind of text and writing ○ A representation, usually written, of a certain group of people ○ Participant observation - the “how” behind ethnography ■ Participating and observing to find out information ○ Methodology: the actions taken to the problems researchers study ■ What researchers do to find out information ■ “Making the strange familiar and the familiar strange” Coming of Age in Samoa ○ Samoan children permitted to experiement socially and sexually ○ VS. American children have pressure to mate for life ○ Teen anxt didn’t exist in Samoa ○ What we take for granted about ourselves was made “strange” through crosscultural comparison ○ Questioned so called “natural” ways of doing things by focusing on life otherwise “Whats the best way?” SNL skit ○ Overly detailed directions ○ How do you get from one place to another? ○ Instructive for thinking about ethnography ■ Involves experiencing places in a particular way ■ When writing she recalls these everyday movements across space Without a grounding in place Ethnographys cant flow (there is no context) ○ Ethnographic narratives are like new england directions ○ Details are important to writing and reading ethnography Participant observation about asking people about their experiences You know what you know about landscape by being in it ○ Knowledge about animals is produced by interactions Hunting is a relationship ○ Management a bad way to think about it So much of what we know we don’t categorize as knowledge ○ Not reflexive → we don’t think about what we know ○ We take it for granted Anthropology teaches us about practices imbedded in practices Seeing ○ Authenticity is a cultural production ○ Tourists/artbuyers wanted things that looked used to make them look authentic ○ The greated achievement is making people see what they want to see ○ Seeing is about understanding representations ■ Of the world, of power, of right and wrong Steiner looking at how authenticity is produced What we see is never straightforward We see something in relation to other somethings ○ One is conscious of something as being something...