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February 07, 2003
Ralph Cintron-Speaker 2003
Ralph Cintron, Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Shifting Fieldsites: Reflecting on Past and Present Ethnographic Fieldwork
The readings for this seminar will juxtapose an older text of mine Angels' Town, which is about a predominantly Mexican community in one of Chicago's suburbs, with some of my newer texts from more recent fieldsites, namely, the Puerto Rican community in Chicago and the Ministry of Health in Kosova. It also includes a recent essay by Bruce Horner, "Critical Ethnography, Ethics, and Work: Rearticulating Labor," and my response to him titled "The Timidities of Ethnography." Horner's essay was recently published in the Journal of Advanced Communication, and my response will be published in the next issue. The following suggested readings represent the work of other ethnographers who seem to hold similar interests, that is, integrating rhetorical analyses of social policies and everyday life with analyses of political and economic conditions.
Robert Desjarlais, Shelter Blues: Sanity and Selfhood among the Homeless.
José Limón, Dancing with the Devil: Society and Poetics in Mexican-American South Texas.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Death without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil.
Michael Taussig, Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing.
Posted by mryonker at February 7, 2003 02:48 PM