For those who were interested in the Reinhold Niebuhr discussion that has been occuring on the topic I posted a few days ago, I managed to track down his work The Irony of American History from whence the quote came. I’m not going to get a chance to read it for a bit, but I thought those with time on their hands might be interested.
I’m psyched, this evening I’ll be going out for a Chicago Hot Dog at Superdawgs, which is on the other side of town. According to Zagat’s it’s one of the best dogs in the city. More on that tomorrow.
Ethnography! That’s what I’m struggling with. I’ve almost driven mad by ethnography, ethnology, qualitative research…And my instructoer also got mad when he’s asked by me, what’s the difference between ethonography and ethnology…
Whatever, it’s a bit hard for a new comer to understand these within one month…
Hey Sicy,
Yeah, sometimes I feel that trying to pin down Ethnography is like trying to grab water. The idea of it changes and alters with the particular situation.
Are you here at the University of Chicago?
Oh… I’d treat it as Ethnography being a verb/action, a specific study activity, and Ethnology being a field of study (one that we often use interchangably with Anthropology). So Ethnologists can conduct Ethnographies… does that make sense?