Comments on: Vox Populi http://savageminds.org/2005/05/15/vox-populi/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 17 May 2012 01:22:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Princeton Progressive Nation: Media Archives http://savageminds.org/2005/05/15/vox-populi/comment-page-1/#comment-1831 Princeton Progressive Nation: Media Archives Sat, 22 Oct 2005 08:11:09 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=31#comment-1831 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Log neatly sums up some points made about quote selection in ethnography and journalism. This article that Liberman quotes explains how quote-gatherers often turn to the same sources over [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] Log neatly sums up some points made about quote selection in ethnography and journalism. This article that Liberman quotes explains how quote-gatherers often turn to the same sources over [...]

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]]> By: Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Interviews http://savageminds.org/2005/05/15/vox-populi/comment-page-1/#comment-542 Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Interviews Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:09:34 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=31#comment-542 [...] d by Kerim under Topics , Technology , Language , Method , dissemination  In one of my first posts on Savage Minds I discussed the convention of using a “man in the stree [...] [...] d by Kerim under Topics , Technology , Language , Method , dissemination 

In one of my first posts on Savage Minds I discussed the convention of using a “man in the stree [...]

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]]> By: Lonely Donut Man http://savageminds.org/2005/05/15/vox-populi/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Lonely Donut Man Thu, 19 May 2005 18:20:50 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=31#comment-79 A simple observation on armchair anthropologists - they may be free of schoolhouse bias by not questioning themselves over their objectivity and editing observations ex post facto A simple observation on armchair anthropologists – they may be free of schoolhouse bias by not questioning themselves over their objectivity and editing observations ex post facto

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]]> By: Lonely Donut Man http://savageminds.org/2005/05/15/vox-populi/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Lonely Donut Man Wed, 18 May 2005 16:01:46 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=31#comment-60 No doubt it showed the folks that you were real, Nancy. I got to spend a couple of weeks drinking with winos at Standing Rock some years ago before I got rehabbed. I always liked the esteem they held from the community as examples for the young on what not to become and as reminders of the meager prosperity people did have. The cops were always gentle with them when they passed out on a road or got to spooking certain people.When I told the crew I had been boozing with that I was moving on, one of them asked, " you're going to leave all of this?" and he pointed to some kids playing nearby.We had gotten drunk and passed out in an abandoned car the night before. I always regret not learning where they spent their days during the cold winters in North Dakota but I would imagine in real cold weather they moved back in with some family members, then did a voluntary exile the next spring. No doubt it showed the folks that you were real, Nancy. I got to spend a couple of weeks drinking with winos at Standing Rock some years ago before I got rehabbed. I always liked the esteem they held from the community as examples for the young on what not to become and as reminders of the meager prosperity people did have. The cops were always gentle with them when they passed out on a road or got to spooking certain people.When I told the crew I had been boozing with that I was moving on, one of them asked, ” you’re going to leave all of this?” and he pointed to some kids playing nearby.We had gotten drunk and passed out in an abandoned car the night before. I always regret not learning where they spent their days during the cold winters in North Dakota but I would imagine in real cold weather they moved back in with some family members, then did a voluntary exile the next spring.

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]]> By: Keywords » Savage Minds http://savageminds.org/2005/05/15/vox-populi/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Keywords » Savage Minds Tue, 17 May 2005 14:50:00 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=31#comment-31 [...] ogists. Since we launched yesterday there are already a bunch of new posts. I wrote about informants who like being interviewed a little too much. Alex wrote about the continued importance [...] [...] ogists. Since we launched yesterday there are already a bunch of new posts. I wrote about informants who like being interviewed a little too much. Alex wrote about the continued importance [...]

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]]> By: Nancy http://savageminds.org/2005/05/15/vox-populi/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Nancy Tue, 17 May 2005 00:06:19 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=31#comment-22 Interesting. One of the first things that happened during my M.A. fieldwork with the Cree in James Bay was that people recommended I talk to this so-and-so and that so-and-so. And it so happened that these so-and-sos were names that I had heard before! I had heard them, for instance, from another grad student who had been in the same community the year before. According to him, these so-and-sos actually had files where they kept record of all the interviews they had given to anthropologists, sociologists and so forth that had visited their community in the past two decades. I reckoned that if I didn't want the "same old stuff", I should talk to different people. This coincided with my principle of allowing multiple voices to be heard. So what did I do? I talked to the very people that I was warned not to talk to: "the drunks". I have a whole chapter in my M.A. thesis that describes my encounters with the drunks (self-proclaimed, by the way) and how, in the end, this allowed me to gain access to social circles to which even my hosts, fairly wealthy and reknown members of their community, had no access. My willingness to converse with drunks and other outcasts of Cree society added a richness to my fieldwork that I am convinced I would not have attained had I only spoken to the above-mentioned so-and-sos. Interesting. One of the first things that happened during my M.A. fieldwork with the Cree in James Bay was that people recommended I talk to this so-and-so and that so-and-so. And it so happened that these so-and-sos were names that I had heard before! I had heard them, for instance, from another grad student who had been in the same community the year before. According to him, these so-and-sos actually had files where they kept record of all the interviews they had given to anthropologists, sociologists and so forth that had visited their community in the past two decades.

I reckoned that if I didn’t want the “same old stuff”, I should talk to different people. This coincided with my principle of allowing multiple voices to be heard. So what did I do? I talked to the very people that I was warned not to talk to: “the drunks”. I have a whole chapter in my M.A. thesis that describes my encounters with the drunks (self-proclaimed, by the way) and how, in the end, this allowed me to gain access to social circles to which even my hosts, fairly wealthy and reknown members of their community, had no access. My willingness to converse with drunks and other outcasts of Cree society added a richness to my fieldwork that I am convinced I would not have attained had I only spoken to the above-mentioned so-and-sos.

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