Ethnography

Making Way and Making Sense for Arrivers: Pre-present Parties' Previous Activity Formulations

When a person arrives to a setting in which a party of persons is already engaged in some activity, parties must make choices about how they manage the pre-present party's previous activity.

Cleaning Up My (Father's) Mess: Narrative Containments of 'Leaky' Masculinities

The disabled body is displayed prominently in contemporary films and television shows, yet the ways it is discursively constructed remain relatively unarticulated.

Discourses of Legitimacy: A Love Song to Our Mongrel Selves

In an intervention that blurs methodological boundaries traditionally separating the researcher from the researched, history from poetry, and the personal from the political, the author weaves a narrative account of her Euro-American family's early history in California into a larger set of social and historical events taking place during the 19th-century.

The Postmodern Ethnographic Flaneur: Studying Hyper-Mediated Everyday Life

In this essay, I consider ethnography's unique capacity to explore and explain the postmodern, fragmented experiences of everyday "mediated" life.

Virtually Tsinoy: Performing and Negotiating Diasporic Hybridity Online

By using cyberethnography, I will examine how Tsinoy.com serves as an online space for Tsinoys (Chinese Filipinos), specifically exploring how Tsinoys perform and negotiate their diasporic hybrid identity through their understanding of "Tsinoyness," language use while online, and celebration of cultural traditions and practices.