Comments on: Ethnography in San Francisco http://cultureby.com/2008/06/ethnography-in.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Wed, 23 May 2012 20:32:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MHB http://cultureby.com/2008/06/ethnography-in.html/comment-page-1#comment-1548 MHB Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:56:56 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=253#comment-1548 one of my favorite ways to travel through a country is via WWOOF (Willing Workers on Organic Farms). In exchange for room + board, you spend the day working on the farm. It's a brilliant way to get off the tourist track and to quietly absorb different aspects of countries and culture... one of my favorite ways to travel through a country is via WWOOF (Willing Workers on Organic Farms). In exchange for room + board, you spend the day working on the farm. It’s a brilliant way to get off the tourist track and to quietly absorb different aspects of countries and culture…

]]> By: Jeppe Linnet http://cultureby.com/2008/06/ethnography-in.html/comment-page-1#comment-1547 Jeppe Linnet Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:57:18 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=253#comment-1547 Grant, by all means a compelling formulation of what it can mean to have an ethnographic insight into context. thanks for a great blog - Jeppe Grant, by all means a compelling formulation of what it can mean to have an ethnographic insight into context.

thanks for a great blog

- Jeppe

]]> By: Grant McCracken http://cultureby.com/2008/06/ethnography-in.html/comment-page-1#comment-1546 Grant McCracken Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:54:23 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=253#comment-1546 Eric, I like the idea of working in payment, but my notion was to have the tourist pay for recruiting and subject participation...as a way of enriching the tourist experience. Best, Grant Jeppe, I am unhappy when people use the term ethnography to describe interviews merely because they are done in home. Of course when they are done by an ethnographer that's a different matter. I don't believe there has to be deep hanging out. The advantage of working in your culture, especially over a period of years, is that you can draw upon this experience to supply data that you cannot supply in the moment. In this event, I believe that ethnographers actually have access to more and better data than do ethnographers who are in place for the more traditional period of a year or two. Best, Grant Eric, I like the idea of working in payment, but my notion was to have the tourist pay for recruiting and subject participation…as a way of enriching the tourist experience. Best, Grant

Jeppe, I am unhappy when people use the term ethnography to describe interviews merely because they are done in home. Of course when they are done by an ethnographer that’s a different matter. I don’t believe there has to be deep hanging out. The advantage of working in your culture, especially over a period of years, is that you can draw upon this experience to supply data that you cannot supply in the moment. In this event, I believe that ethnographers actually have access to more and better data than do ethnographers who are in place for the more traditional period of a year or two. Best, Grant

]]> By: Jeppe Linnet http://cultureby.com/2008/06/ethnography-in.html/comment-page-1#comment-1545 Jeppe Linnet Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:06:47 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=253#comment-1545 Grant, you have repeatedly stated that doing interviews in people´s homes does not suffice to use the label "ethnography" for one´s methodology. I agree. The hipness of the term is a threat to its precision, because of its frequent and sometimes undeserved use in both consultancy and academic research. But then why do you call your three in-home interviews a day "ethnography"? Because you ride public transport there? Or do you actually do any of the "deep hanging out" with the same informants that would approach the ethnographic ideal? Grant, you have repeatedly stated that doing interviews in people´s homes does not suffice to use the label “ethnography” for one´s methodology. I agree. The hipness of the term is a threat to its precision, because of its frequent and sometimes undeserved use in both consultancy and academic research. But then why do you call your three in-home interviews a day “ethnography”? Because you ride public transport there? Or do you actually do any of the “deep hanging out” with the same informants that would approach the ethnographic ideal?

]]> By: Eric Nehrlich http://cultureby.com/2008/06/ethnography-in.html/comment-page-1#comment-1544 Eric Nehrlich Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:07:29 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=253#comment-1544 So the business in question would be tourism via ethnography? I like it - do an interview or two a day, write up the results, get your room and board paid for. Even better, blog the results to create an open-source ethnography database that everybody could learn from. Sell access to the results with the Media Lab model (companies can restrict access to their results to themselves, but at the cost of not being able to see anybody else's work). Not sure if there's a business model here, but it'd be fun to do anyway :) So the business in question would be tourism via ethnography? I like it – do an interview or two a day, write up the results, get your room and board paid for. Even better, blog the results to create an open-source ethnography database that everybody could learn from. Sell access to the results with the Media Lab model (companies can restrict access to their results to themselves, but at the cost of not being able to see anybody else’s work). Not sure if there’s a business model here, but it’d be fun to do anyway :)

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