- Post your ethnography to your blog and write a paragraph or two about what you have discovered in the process – about yourself as a practitioner/researcher, about the space you have chosen to document, about listening, etc.
In this section about ethnography, we learned about anthropology and anto-ethnography, where it is about human study and culture writing, where ethnography is how humans colonise places and study how native people behave, their culture and especially architecture. There are a variety of methods that can be used to do ethnography.
As a researcher, I need to put myself into the generation of opera, and dig into the origin of the practice.
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- Keep on reading through your research materials. Also look up additional sources that are quoted in the texts that you read. Keep on taking notes.
- Start collating the notes for your essay into a draft structure – drawing a mind map might help with this. Post your draft structure to the blog.
The ideas of my essay structures are:
Idea 1: African music & Chinese opera
Idea 2: Two different types of Chinese opera that located in different areas in China
Research resources:
Adams, Tony E., Holman Jones, Stacy and Ellis, Carolyn (2015). ‘Introduction to autoethnography’. In: Autoethnography: understanding qualitative research. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1–20.
Scruggs, Gregory and Lippman, Alexandra (2012). ‘From funkification to pacification’. Norient Academic Online Journal, 1. Available at: https://norient.com/academic/rio-funk-2012?special=218 (Accessed 9 March 2023).
Wang, Jing (2014). ‘Mapping an existential territory: an autoethnography of a sound researcher’. International Review of Qualitative Research, 7 (4), 486–501, doi.org/10.1525/irqr.2014.7.4.486.