Sunday 23 September 2012

Facing "The Field"

Our time is quickly slipping by. During this last week, we are all working at linking place and people, faces and friendships, insiders and outsiders. We learn about these dichotomies, we sometimes try to keep boundaries clear, but realize they often become blurred. Ethnography becomes that messy business where we end up wondering about this field work. Work that is play, work that is learning, work that is frustrating, rewarding, exhilirating, terrifying, or fun. We are in a place far from the familiar, a place different. But soon the reality of this place will become memory, and our memories of these three weeks will be of sounds and conversations and faces. We will write about our time in academic ways, but we will know how inadequate that way of writing often is. What will remain will be these faces from our field.
 

All photos Jerry Pocius


Ed, Kiyomi, Kayla and Ster

Kristin, Erin, Claire and Wins: accordion heaven

Alvin with treasures



John supervising Kristin, Ed and Erin

 


Noah getting the details from Alicia and Claire



Alicia and friend at The Cape

 


Percy and another kind of fish at the Ryan Premises

 

Wilson Hayward remembers: three pies




Phonse at the nets


Noah records, Phonse describes



Bonavista Social Club: the new NL

 
















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