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Course Home E-mail the class Class discussion board FRIDAY HISTORICAL READINGS Oct 10: Pioneers Oct 17: Expertise Oct 24: Cliffords Oct 31: Danger Nov 7: El Dorado Nov 14: Emotions Nov 21: Natives M Dec 1: Assistants Dec 5: Summary MONDAY EXERCISES Sep 29: Experience Oct 6: Observation Oct 13: Interview Oct 20: Discomfort Oct 27: Formal Nov 3: Survey Nov 10: Photo Nov 17: Video Nov 24: Digital |
An aspect of fieldwork not widely treated in writing until recently is that of emotions--the emotional roller-coaster that is often the ride of fieldworkers, who unlike most immigrants or refugees, less often seek out the comfort of people from their own culture, as well as the emotional attachments that arise in and often affect field workers' relationships with the people they study.
Read the following: Then, by midnight on Thursday, November 13, post a comment of about 200 words on whether you think writing about your own emotions is something that deserves publication, or is just self-indulgence best left on one's own desktop, and why. |