RESEARCH METHODS AND FIELD WORK IN FOLK CULTURES

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1 Syllabus RESEARCH METHODS AND FIELD WORK IN FOLK CULTURES Last update HU Credits: 4 Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master) Responsible Department: Folklore and Folk Culture Academic year: 0 Semester: Yearly Teaching Languages: Hebrew Campus: Mt. Scopus Course/Module Coordinator: Dr. Carmela Abdar and Dr. Esther Juhasz Coordinator Esther.juhasz@gmail.com: chitta@012.net.il Coordinator Office Hours: Monday 16:00-17:00 Teaching Staff: Dr. Carmela Avdar page 1 / 6

2 Dr. Esther Juhasz Course/Module description: In the first semester the course will introduce qualitative methodologies and field work in the study folklore. We will emphasize the connection between principal analytical theoretical approaches, research questions, fieldwork; the dialogic relationship between the researcher and the studied field, and the process of analysis and interpretation of folk expressions. The students will practice fieldwork methods: ethnographic interviews and participant observation for the study of textual and ritual folk expressions. The second semester will focus on theoretical and methodological aspects of the study of material culture. We will introduce documentation methods of material artifacts as well as interpretative analytical theories of the study of material culture. Course/Module aims: To study and practice field research methods in folklore Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to: A successful completion of the course will enable the students to perform field work interviewsand analyze them according to the theoretical approaches to the study of folklore. They will acquire tools to document artifacts in their wide cultural contexts, and will be able to examine and analyze a corpus of material expressions of folk culture. Attendance requirements(%): attendance required Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Lecture, discussion, practical experience of methodologies Course/Module Content: Semester 1 Principals of qualitative research. Methods of structured and in depth interview. page 2 / 6

3 Participant observation Analysis and interpretation of fieldwork data Reflexive process - the dialogic relationship between the researcher and the studied field. Semester 2 Material culture as an academic discipline -Theory and methodology of the study of material culture -The study of material culture and folk culture - documentation of objects - the object in cultural contexts Case study for practical experience. Required Reading: First semester: qualitative research Methods נ' צבר בן-יהושע, מסורות וזרמים במחקר איכותי, תל אביב [עמ' 27-13] ע' יסיף, "לגלות את ישראל האחרת: העיתונאי כאתנוגראף וכמבקר תרבות", אלפיים: כתב עת רב- תחומי לעיון, הגות וספרות, 11, תשנ"ה 1995, עמ' בין תיאור לתיאוריה טקסים סרט: ע' שנער, "כמו מעולם רחוק לידה", שירות הסרטים הלאומי. ו' טרנר, התהליך הטקסי: מבנה ואנטי מבנה, תל אביב [עמ' : פרק 2 לימינליות וקומיוניטס] V. Turner, Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage, The Forest of Symbols, Ithaca & New York 1976, pp א' שקדי, מילים מנסות לגעת: מחקר איכותני: תיאוריה ויישום. תל-אביב [עמ' 79-55: עקרונות איסוף נתונים"; "שיטות איסוף נתונים" ראיון עומק] 2003 S H B. Sherman Heyl, "Ethnographic Interviewing", Handbook of Ethnography (eds. P. Atkinson et al.), London 2001, pp E. G. Mishler, Research Interviewing Context and Narrative, Cambridge & London [pp ch. 2: Research Interviews as Speech Events]. R.M. Emerson et al., "Participant Observation and Fieldnotes", Handbook of Ethnography (eds. P. Atkinson et al.), London 2001, pp תמר אלאור, משכילות ובורות: מעולמן של נשים חרדיות, תל אביב 2005 [עמ' 82-11] ד' גבתון, "תיאוריה המעוגנת בשדה: משמעות תהליך ניתוח הנתונים ובניית התיאוריה במחקר איכותני", page 3 / 6

4 מסורות וזרמים במחקר איכותי (בעריכת נ' צבר בן-יהושע) תל-אביב 2002, עמ' י' בילו, "חקר התרבות העממית בעידן הפוסט-מודרני: סיפור אישי", תיאוריה וביקורת, 1997, 10, עמ' מ' שוקד וש' דשן, דור התמורה: שינוי והמשכיות בעולמם של יוצאי אפריקה, ירושלים [עמ' 49-43: מחקר אנתרופולוגי בארץ: מעורבות לעומת הסתכלות מבחוץ] מ' שוקד, מסע אנתרופולוגי: תצפית מרחוק ומקרוב, תל אביב [עמ' : הגלוי והנסתר במחקר אתנוגראפי] א' אבוהב, קרוב אצל אחרים: התפתחות האנתרופולוגיה בישראל, תל אביב [עמ' שער ד: מהלכי חיים של אנתרופולוגים] ק' גירץ, עבודות וחיים: האנתרופולוג כמחבר, תל אביב [עמ' 53-31: פרק - 1 להיות שם: אנתרופולוגיה וזירת הכתיבה] J. Clifford & G. E. Marcus, Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, Brkeley [pp. 1-26:Introduction: Partial Truths; pp : From the Door of His Tent[. ש' אילתי וי' ורטה "הכנת כתב יד לדפוס", מפתח קתדרה לחוברות 40-21, תשמ"ז, עמ' Second semester: Material culture - theory and methodology Material culture - general studies A Handbook of Material Culture, eds. Ch. Tilley, W.Keane, S. Kuchler, M. Rowlands,, P.Spyer London 2006 The Material Culture Reader, ed.victorbuchli, Oxford New York 2002 Barthes Roland, Mythologies, London 1993 (1957 ) Journal of Material culture *Daniel Miller, Artefacts and the Meaning of Things, Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology, ed. Tim Ingold, London 1994, pp *Igor Kopytoff, The Cultural Biography of Things, ArjunAppadurai(ed), The Social Life of Things, Commodities in Cultural Perspective Cambridge 1986, pp *ידידה כלפוןסטילמן, " תרבות חומרית מהי? בתוך ממרוקו לשלומי שרידיה של תרבות חומרית, חיפה תשמ"ג עמ' *Susan Pearce, Thinking about things in Interpreting Objects and Collections, ed. Susan Pearce, London 1995, pp *Susan Pearce, Artefacts as the Social Anthropologist sees them, in Social History in Museums, eds. David Fleming,Crispin Paine, John G. Rhodes London 1993 pp page 4 / 6

5 *Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimbelt, Objects of Ethnography, Exhibiting Cultures, eds. Ivan Karp and Steven D. Levine, Washington, London 1991, pp Simon J. Bronner, Folk Objects, in Folk Groups and Folk Genres, ed. Elliot Oring, pp *Henry Glassie,The Idea of Folk Art, Folk Art and Folk Worlds, eds. John Vlach, Simon J. Bronner UMI Research Press 1986, pp Nelson H.H. Graburn ed., Ethnic and Tourist Arts, Cultural Expressions from the Forth World,Berkeley, Los Angeles, London 1976, Introduction pp *אריק כהן, "מהו חפץ אתנוגרפי", אתנוגרפיה יהודית במוזיאון, עורך אבשלום זמר, איגוד המוזיאונים בישראל, חיפה 1993 עמ'.15 9 Case study: the house Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, Boston 1969 *Amos Rapoport, House Form and Culture, Englewood Cliffs N.J 1969, pp.1-66 Henry Glassie, Vernacular Architecture in Material Culture, Bloomington 1999 pp Pierre Bourdieu, The Kabyle House or the World Reversed in Algeria 1960, Cambridge 1972 *פייר בורדייה,"הבית הקבילי", בתוך תרבות אדריכלית- מקום,ייצוג, גוף, רחל קלוש טלי חתוקה, עורכות תל אביב 2005 עמ' *MihalyCsikszentmihalyi and Eugene Rochberg - Halton, The Meaning of Things,Domestic Symbols and the Self, Cambridge 1981,chapter 3, pp Daniel Miller, (ed.) Home Possessions, Material Culture behind Closed Doors, Oxford New York 2001 *Stephan Harold Riggins, The power of things: The role of domestic objects in the presentations of self, Beyond Goffman, Studies on Communication, Institution and Social Interaction, Berlin New York 1990 pp Daniel Miller, Appropriating the State on the Council Estate, Man, 23, 1988.pp *Renee Hirschon, Essential Objects and the Sacred: Interior and Exterior, Space in an Urban Greek Locality, Women and Space, Ground Rules and Social Maps, ed. ShirlyArdener, London 1981, pp Joelle Bahloul, The Architecture of Memory, A Jewish Muslim Household in Colonial Algeria , Cambridge *Joelle Bahloul, Home and Remembrance of the Exile Among North African Sephardim, Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Review Additional Reading Material: Required bibliographical items are marked by an asterix page 5 / 6

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