Qualitative Research as Translation of Human Experience

05Nov09

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 [...]

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Imagination, invention in India

04Apr08

Corbett & Eberly: topoi & enthymeme
Do Indians reason enthymematically?
I) FREEDOM MOVEMENT
1) a. Example from Gandhi:Exploitation through the cotton economy or salt tax are the problems
All those who are self sufficient can’t be exploited
You are self sufficient (by spinning your own cotton, burning/not consuming foreign goods, producing your own salt)
You can’t be exploited
In these examples of [...]

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About this blog etc. – Part II

09Dec07

I was turned on to the term Red Rhetoric by a book written by my doctoral dissertation adviser on the “unsleepingly rhetorical” (inspired by Kenneth Burke’s of characterization of Marxism) nature of Marxist rhetoric. More than Lukacs’ essay “Towards a Methodology of the Problem of Organization,” this book made the case for examining the [...]

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About this blog etc.

07Dec07

This blog has been set up to help me write my dissertation. So, what is my dissertation about? See, if I didn’t have such a hard time explaining it I would be writing it instead of this blog but hopefully writing about it here in a messy way will help to clear my head. [...]

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