Facts, Fiction, and Literary Ethnography

2017 ◽  
pp. 133-141
Keyword(s):  
Literary Ethnography

scholarly journals Using Literary Ethnography as a Form of Qualitative Document Synthesis to Explore the Maltreatment of Vulnerable Populations: An Examination of Verbal Neglect and Abuse in Nursing Homes

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Ulsperger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Literary Ethnography

Studying vulnerable populations can be highly problematic. This is especially true when they are located in institutional settings. When gatekeepers block access and a researcher wants to examine a delicate topic, one ethical, feasible way to paint an interpretive picture of everyday life involves the use of a literary ethnography. With data on the verbal neglect and abuse of elders in United States nursing homes, this paper details the six-stages of a literary ethnography. It includes a discussion of identifying sources, reading and interpreting the documents, identifying textual themes, classifying themes, developing a set of analytic constructs, and re-reading documents for contextual confirmation. It concludes with a discussion of literary ethnography weaknesses and directions for future applications.

Russian Ethnographers in the Service of Empire, 1856-1862

Slavic Review ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine B. Clay
Keyword(s):  
The Public ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Scientific Movements ◽  
Cultural Legacies ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Imperial State ◽  
Literary Ethnography ◽  
Great Reforms

Several young Russian and Ukrainian writers responded to the era of Great Reforms by taking up a new enterprise: literary ethnography. Their ethnographic expeditions and reports of 1856 to 1862 manifested new political, cultural and social scientific movements within the empire. They not only investigated obstacles to forging a diverse, multinational population into a common empire, they also called the attention of educated Russians and the Russian state to cultural legacies of the countryside. Some were deemed worthy of preservation; others seemed inconsistent with modern ways. They sought a new socio-political path for the public. In these ways they began to link the various peoples in the empire, the imperial state and educated Russia at a time of social and political disclocation.

scholarly journals RELIGIOUS AND SYNCRETIC FOUNDATIONS OF THE MENTALITY OF RUSSIAN EMIGRANTS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF LITERARY AND ETHNOGRAPHIC PROSE BY N.A. BAIKOV AND P.V. SHKURKIN)

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
EVGENIYA A. KONTALEVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
External Environment ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Individual Personality ◽  
The One ◽  
Personality Features ◽  
Literary Ethnography

The article reveals the phenomenon of frontier mentality and its syncretic features and marginal character. Being the birth of the border (frontier), this type of mentality is a complex construct, a specific ideological and psychological formation, the problems of which, on the one hand, are determined by social, geographical, historical and other factors, and on the other hand, are exposed to the external environment and embedded in various spheres of human existence. Among Russian emigrants who were carriers of the Russian logocentric culture, creativity becomes one of the main such spheres, especially literary one. Through the word, not only individual personality features of the authors were recorded, but also common tendencies of frontier mentality and the mentality of this historical period. The author, using the example of literary ethnography, makes an attempt to distinguish these features and the main trends in the mentality of Russian emigrants in China.

Uncanny Soundscapes: Towards an inoperative acoustic community

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 264-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain Foreman
Keyword(s):  
Field Research ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
Acoustic Community ◽  
Literary Ethnography

Drawing on field research carried out in the abandoned villages of the Ara Valley, this article seeks to readdress notions of acoustic community and communication in terms of a ‘haptic aurality’ in which listening, as a mode of touch, approximates a figure of spacing, fragmentation and withdrawal in contrast to more conventional communicational models of intimacy, presence and exchange. Arguing that soundscape compositions present an ‘acoustic ontology’, the article explores a form of belonging and being that is, following Jean-Luc Nancy, singular plural in which sound signals ‘unwork’ collectivities through the processes of ‘sharing’ and ‘splitting’ (partage) characteristic of listening and recording. Referring to the work of writer W.G. Sebald (1944–2001), whose hybrid ‘literary ethnography’ was the impetus for my own soundwalks and fieldwork, and considering the role of soundscape composition within the discipline of Trauma Studies, the article scopes out to consider the possibilities of soundscape composition as a form of testimony in light of Agamben's (1999) insistence that testimony is necessarily incomplete. As a form of ‘myopic witnessing’ (Jenckes 2010), the sonic memories of ruined soundscapes are presented as spacings and absences, fragments and lacunae, that are themselves characteristic of both the ontology of ruins and those of testimony.

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