Archive for the 'Translation' Category

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 [...]


CATEGORIES
Ethnography & Empirical Data
Ethnographic Interview (Selections from Spradley?)
Participant Observation (Selections from Spradley?)
Example: Life History (Dorothy Lee), Geertz (Interpretation of Cultures), That Ethnography on Texas Working Class and Schools (??)
Debates: Marcus and Clifford etc.
Archival Research, Hermeneutics, & Textual Data
Historical Research: An Outline of Theory and Practice

Vision and Method in Historical Sociology (Not for class, but for [...]