By: gfesadmin on September 25, 2013
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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: Mark Steele on September 21, 2013
Good to Great by Jim Collins has been one of my favorite leadership books ( Collins 2001). I Have had the opportunity to take a number of team members through the principles Collins articulates. One principle in particular, “getting the right people on the bus,” has challenged me for many years. I remember one of…
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: Sam Stephens on September 20, 2013
“Good is the enemy of Great” (Collins 2001). Most companies are good and are satisfied to remain that way while the possibilities and potential lies before them to move to a level of greatness. Jim Collins, following a thorough research of the subject argues in his book Good To Great that it is only a leader…
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: Sharenda Roam on September 20, 2013
“How do you create a climate where the truth is heard? (74) This question, asked by Jim Collins, the author of the book Good to Great intrigued me. Especially as it relates to a question one of my college students in my “World Religions” class asked me recently. He wanted to know, after studying all…
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 Rhoads on September 20, 2013
In the spring of 1997 I married my college sweetheart Naomi. Like many newlyweds, our first few months were spent learning new an interesting details about your spouse. Not long into our second month, Naomi shared that she had a hedgehog by the name of Loofa, which she was keeping at her classroom at the…
By: Cedrick Valrie on September 20, 2013
Rick Warren recently preached a sermon comparing life to a game of poker, highlighting the types of cards life deals. The five he proposes are chemistry, connection, circumstance, conscience, and choices. I would like to highlight the latter card – choices. Choices can be unexpected game changers. When determining someone’s capacity for greatness, Jim Collins…
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…
By: David Toth on September 19, 2013
Doctorow’s book left my head swimming in a sea of I’s and O’s! I felt like he was trying to help me to grab hold of a wet greasy fish that was very much alive and wiggling to get free! I usually take some notes as I work through a book but at the end…
By: Deve Persad on September 19, 2013
For the last five years we sent teams to El Salvador. Short term teams, 8 days, with the specific purpose of building homes for those who have been displaced by earthquakes and hurricanes. Each morning, as the sun climbs above the mountain peaks, our team heads to the worksite, excitement and anticipation always accompany us…
