CENTRAL THEME:
Start with Benjamin’s essay on “Task of a translator.” Explore the themes invoked therein in the readings.
How To Do Type Texts (Selections From These)
Ethnographic Interview (Spradley)
Participant Observation (Spradley?)
Historical Research: An Outline of Theory and Practice
On Philology
Texts That also Serve As Examples (Reduce examples of ethnography and include examples of macro as well as comparative [...]
Filed under: Ethnography, Historical Sociology, Historiography, Imagination, Method, Philology, Rhetoric, Studying Human Experience, Translation
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Quotidienne/Daily
p. 53
Why do some people, including myself, enjoy in certain novels, biographies, and historical works the representation of the “daily life’ of an epoch, of a character? Why this curiosity about petty details: schedules, habits, meals, lodging, clothing, etc.? Is it the hallucinatory relish of “reality” (the very materiality of “that once existed”)? And is [...]
Filed under: Barthes, Dailyness, Imagination, history
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Tags: The Pleasure of the Text
p. 15
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.
p. 15-16
In like manner a beginner who has learnt a new language always translates it back into his mother [...]
Filed under: Destiny or fate, Free will, Imagination, Marx, Revolution, history
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Tags: 18th Burmaire
