By: Deve Persad on October 10, 2013
“Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock. Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on the bedrock.” Matthew 7:24-25 NLT Jesus’ conclusion to the…
By: Ashley Goad on October 10, 2013
(Note: Please forgive the formatting. I am submitting via cell phone under a mango tree on top of a mountain! Greetings from Haiti!) I was not looking forward to this next series of books. I much prefer reading about ethnography and practical application of any principle. Perhaps my conservative seminary background put a bad taste…
By: Richard Volzke on October 10, 2013
Krish Kandiah, Executive Director: Evangelical Alliance London, United Kingdom, made a faculty presentation on “Holistic Disciple Making” at the “Leadership Global Perspective Advance” conducted by George Fox Evangelical Seminary in London. In challenging the students and faculty to the task of Christian disciple making, Kandiah advocated that spiritual formation is essentially the church’s primary task…
By: Mitch Arbelaez on October 10, 2013
Allow me to apologize first of all for the tardiness of this post. For some reason I got into my mind that there was a reprieve of this assignment due to our traveling to London. But alas, I was incorrect. Upon my return there were things stacked against me in my absence. But here, at…
By: Raphael Samuel on September 30, 2013
Posted by: Raphael Samuel. In the “Doing Sensory Ethnography”, author Sarah Pink adapts a scholarly approach in documenting and assessing the many changes unfolding in the field of ethnography. To further help her audience process these development, pink also draws on her own experiences in research in the field of ethnography. The book is very…
By: gfesadmin on September 25, 2013
Richard Volzke: A Visual Ethnographer rvolzke: A Visual Ethnographer While reading Doing Visual Ethnography by Pink this week, the quote “a picture is worth 1000 words” kept coming to mind. Pink primarily focuses on photographic interpretation of society and culture and after reading the book, it dawned on me that visual ethnography has…
By: gfesadmin on September 25, 2013
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By: Julie Dodge on September 23, 2013
“Images are ‘everywhere’. They permeate our academic work, everyday lives, conversations, our imagination and our dreams.” So Sarah Pink opens her approach to Doing Visual Ethnography (2007). Pink walks the reader through a conceptualization of conducting ethnography through the use of visual tools such as photography, video, existing visual images, and using various approaches including…
By: John Woodward on September 20, 2013
My reading of Sarah Pink’s Doing Sensory Ethnography gave the sensation of entering into an entirely new universe. As a good ethnographer, I took Pink’s advice to heart of not “being completely prepared…before starting” (Kindle Ed. 1121), I ventured into this new world, totally oblivious to what I would find. What I found was a world disorientating…
By: Clint Baldwin on September 20, 2013
Sarah Pink’s Doing Sensory Ethnography I found to be a remarkably refreshing text on methodological practice/process. Pink’s willingness to explore and utilize an interdisciplinary approach – or rather, a multidisciplinary approach – marked by rigor, exploration and candor is vital material needed in both the academy and in the broader world. For too long, too…
By: Telile Fikru Badecha on September 20, 2013
Reading Doing Sensory Ethnography, by Sarah Pink is a great eye opener to see where I need make changes in my approach to ministry and a great tool for my future research. I appreciate that Pink clearly depict the limitation of classical observational methods for ethnography. Sara Delamount, defines of ethnography as something done by…
By: Julie Dodge on September 20, 2013
Yesterday I was talking with a colleague about their experiences while living in Minnesota. During the discussion the topic of lutefisk came up. For those not familiar with lutefisk, it is fish soaked in lye. The lye preserves it, makes it gelatinous, and depending on the type of original fish, for example cod, can be…
By: gfesadmin on September 20, 2013
Yesterday I was talking with a colleague about their experiences while living in Minnesota. During the discussion the topic of lutefisk came up. For those not familiar with lutefisk, it is fish soaked in lye. The lye preserves it, makes it gelatinous, and depending on the type of original fish, can be particularly pungent. Lutefisk…
By: Michael Badriaki on September 20, 2013
I shot the photograph above while on a trip to East Africa. The context in which the image was taken in is extremely meaningful because it is profoundly familiar, significant and it evokes many emotions. In an effort to understand more about visual ethnography and reality, I decided to study the photo of colorful T-shirts…
By: Carol McLaughlin on September 20, 2013
I have a confession. This book had me before I reached the end of the first page in the Introduction. Three simple words: place, memory, and imagination did it for me. If sensory ethnography includes these things then I am “in.” When we think about senses we think of the five senses we grew up…
By: Richard Volzke on September 20, 2013
Using your five senses in Ethnography Pink, in her book Do Sensory Ethnography, encourages the researcher to move from just observing the culture or society they are studying to actively immersing themselves in the society. When the researcher experiences the culture through their own senses it gives them a greater sense of reality and understanding…
By: rhbaker275 on September 19, 2013
To the person who is new to the field of ethnographic practice, in the book Doing Sensory Ethnography, Sarah Pink presents a multi-dimensional approach to doing ethnography. Sensuality in ethnography is recognizing and encompassing the natural multisensory nature of the ethnographer and those participating in the research project (p.1). In both of her books, visual…
By: Ashley Goad on September 19, 2013
Ethnography continues to be such a new term and action for me, but as one of my classmates pointed out this week, I am now constantly looking to see what is in front of me in a different light. When first picking up Doing Sensual Ethnography, I was a little skeptical. How can you possibly…
