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- Opening Vignette setting the mood and introducing your audience to an iconic scene in your food culture
- make sure at least one of your themes is illustrated in the vignette
- quotations should be minimal in a vignette if at all
- First theme
- begin with a short evocative quote (single sentence) --name (heading)
- Introduce the theme through the action of your characters
- Illustrate the theme with quotations and interspersed thick description
- analyze each illustration (this can be enmass for some) and support your analysis with citation from text or your research if appropriate. Cite this in Chicago style.
- Second theme (repeat)
- Third theme (repeat)
- Concluding analysis
- summarize your themes
- summarize your analysis
- conclude with a powerful quote that sums up the meaning/importance of food/cuisine/cooking in your culture
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Further options:
if you have a number of quotes that illustrate a particular theme, try to arrange them so that each adds an element that is used to further develop the theme in your analysis. If you do this, you must also point this out to your readers.
General principles for writing ethnography to remember:
- We are not writing ABOUT our fieldwork or OUR experiences or what WE learned. We are using our fieldwork and what we learned to craft a description of the culture through their foodways.
- Any important aspect of culture will be seen in every institution of culture (including food). You are simply revealing the values, beliefs, and practices through this one institution.
- DESCRIBE things so that your reader can EXPERIENCE the cultural scene as you did. The idea is to have your audience have an EXPERIENCE not that you tell them what is going on. (Show me don't tell me)
- Remember to use the paralinguistic information in your quotations (not in transcription form but in description). This is a way to keep your thick description throughout the text and not just in vignettes. Make the writing flow
- Develop you CHARACTERS. Use thick description to do this and introduce them in action.
- Tell a story from the perspective of your informants, not your. You are simply the tour guide.
- Cite your supporting research.
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