KINE 3P18 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hermeneutics, Ethnography, Historical Vedic Religion
5 Jul 2016
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The overt behaviour seen in documents (ex. letters) represents the image on the front side of a tapestry. Major inferences of the character and personality display the underlying construction on the back. You as the researcher need to make these inferences based on your own understandings and experiences. Focus on meanings of experiences from people who experience them. We create the persons, just as they create themselves when they engage in story telling practices (pg. 82) - what it is to be a story teller. Biographers cannot partial out their own biases and values so biographies will reflect the lives of the writers. These biases/values need to be acknowledged by biographer and reflected in the written biography. To articulate and explore your meaning, bias towards people, places, things: you are the analytic computer, and readers must know if your software is running properly. In quantitative- take a large enough random sample, assume sample represents population.
