In his TIPS post of 15 Aug 2005 20:06:10-0700, Miguel Roig wrote:
". . . right before TIPS.. . . .
[<http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english>].
. . went off the air an interesting article. . .[Nathan (2005a)]. . .
appeared in "The Chronicle of Higher Education" written by an
anthropologist who describes a research project carried out at her
own university. In it she describes the struggles she faced with
maintaining her own anonymity while conducting her study, as well as
her attempts at maintaining her subjects' trust, privacy, and
confidentiality. . . . ."
According to Nathan (2005a), the essay is adapted from Nathan (2005b)
and the name "Rebekah Nathan" is the pseudonym of a professor of
anthropology (guess who) at a large public university (guess which).
Although, as indicated by Nathan, the modern culture of students is
bizarre, even more so is the punk-rock culture investigated by
intrepid anthropologist Leslie Roman (1988, 1989, 1996, forthcoming).
The problems Roman faced in attempting to maintain her scientific
neutrality, similar to those faced by Nathan, are discussed by Howe &
Eisenhart (H&E) (1990). H&E point out that some have questioned
whether or not Roman's work is truly ethnographic, a position that
H&E think misses the point that "what is to count as ethnography in
neither given once and for all nor impervious to challenge. Instead
it must be determined by what ethnographers, presumably with good
reason and after some debate, decide."
Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
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<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi>
REFERENCES
Howe, K & M. Eisenhart. 1990. "Standards for Qualitative (and
Quantitative) Research; A Prolegomenon," Educational Researcher
19(4): 2-9; soon to be available online (supposedly) at
<http://www.aera.net/publications/?id=331>.
Nathan, R. 2005a. "An Anthropologist Goes Under Cover," The Chronicle
Review 51(47): Bll, 29 July; online (probably only for a limited
time) at <http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i47/47b01101.htm>.
Nathan R. 2005b. "My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by
Becoming a Student," Cornell University Press. From the Inside Flap:
"The first thing to say about this book is that there are very few
books like it. The author's account of living in the dorm and taking
classes on a campus where she had worked as a professor for many
years is fascinating. From her experience enrolled as a freshman and
through her anthropological lens, we learn how different the world of
students is from what professors imagine it to be. I think anyone
with an interest in undergraduate life-whether in academe or not-will
want to read it and will enjoy it." - Margaret Eisenhart, University
Distinguished Professor and Charles Chair of Education, University of
Colorado at Boulder
Roman, L.G. 1988. "Intimacy, Labor, and Class: Ideologies of Feminine
Sexuality in the Punk Slam Dance", in L.G. Roman and L.
Christian-Smith, eds. "Becoming Feminine: The Politics of Popular
Culture," pp. 143-184. Falmer Press.
Roman, L.G. 1989. "Double Exposure: Politics of feminist research,"
Paper presented at the Qualitative Research in Education Conference.
Roman, L.G. 1993. "Double Exposure: The Politics of Feminist
Materialist Ethnography," Educational Theory 43(3): 279-308.
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Roman, L.G. (forthcoming). "A Tenuous Sisterhood: Women in an
American Punk Subculture." Rowman and Littlefield.
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