ANTHRO 2A Study Guide - Final Guide: Renato Rosaldo, Margaret Mead, Ethnography
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Ethnography takes place in a small south texas town, north town . Study shows how schools are sites for popular culture practices. Where youth perform future class roles in sports, youth groups, and class rituals. Claims that americans are obsessed with youthfulness, therefore the youth set trends that socializes the adults. Ethnography living/visiting north town periodically over a 14 year period. Originally done over a 16 month period from 1973 to 1974. Captured the cultural and political ferment of the 60s and and 70s. Asked youth how it changed in the 80s. Renato rosaldo, george e. marcus, and richard cushman. Being dialogic with the subjects of the study suggests a greater intellectual openness and political and emotional vulnerability on the part of the investigator. At risk to be condemned as popularized accounts or passionate ethnographies . The craft of writing critical, reflective empirical accounts of personal fieldwork experiences.
