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Researching girls and violence: facing the dilemmas of fieldwork [PDF]
This paper explores key methodological and analytical issues encountered in an exploratory study of teenage girls' views and experiences of violence, carried out in Scotland.
Batchelor, S.A.+2 more
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Automated tone transcription [PDF]
In this paper I report on an investigation into the problem of assigning tones to pitch contours. The proposed model is intended to serve as a tool for phonologists working on instrumentally obtained pitch data from tone languages. Motivation and exemplification for the model is provided by data taken from my fieldwork on Bamileke Dschang (Cameroon ...
arxiv
The benefits and challenges of international fieldwork are well rehearsed. However, understanding of students’ affective experiences during fieldwork is less well developed.
A. Marvell, D. Simm
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Where the dust settles: fieldwork, subjectivity and materiality in Cairo
This article uses the very materiality of the city, namely its dust, to reflect on the processes of researching and writing about it. By using ‘dust’ as both a material and an imaginative metaphor that assembles architecture, urban space, archives and ...
Aya Nassar
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Grounded in a self-reflexive, intersectional analysis of positionality, we examine emotions in fieldwork through the autobiographical accounts that we gathered during our postgraduate ethnographic research in the Global South.
M. Caretta, J. Jokinen
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A Guerilla Approach to Control System Development [PDF]
We present our experiences in managing the development cycles of the control systems for ANKA and the ALMA Common Software. Our team consists practically only of undergraduate students. Stimulating and rewarding the students with cutting-edge technologies and travel to conferences like this and installation fieldwork are an important positive factor in
arxiv
Online learning support for students on fieldwork placement [PDF]
This project is designed to deliver a WebCT (virtual learning environment) course and was introduced into a programme that had no previous experience of managed or virtual learning environments.
CLAD, LDU
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The Slovak Association of Social Anthropologists initiated recently a discussion about the ethics in the ethnology, social and cultural anthropology. In January 2009 the association organized the seminar “Ethics in ethnology/social anthropology which brought vivid response in the academic community in Slovakia.
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Model-Guided Fieldwork: A Practical, Methodological and Philosophical Investigation in the use of Ethnomethodology for Engineering Software Requirements [PDF]
Ethnomethodological fieldwork has long been acknowledged as a potentially valuable way of informing the design of technology. However, there is relatively little methodological support for this activity, particularly in relation to the systematic approaches to development advocated in mainstream software and requirements engineering.
arxiv