My Photography Ethnography

Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?

Ethnography tells about a culture and the members that comprise this culture. A definition is the scientific description of the customs and individual people of a culture. The process of doing this assignment allowed me to explore another aspect of a cultural group. I was able to learn extensively about interactions between individuals and how see them as a culture. The group that comprises my ethnography is a cultural group very common to Utah. The culture I focused on was the LDS culture, to be more specific I studied a sub-culture of this group. My subculture was a group of 12 year old adolescents that are a Sunday school class in this culture.

I live in a country where I can meet people from all cultures and walks of life on a daily basis, yet still I have felt like a stranger in this “melting pot”. In the United States, the idea of diversity is a term I have heard many times when speaking of ways to heal the past of slavery and segregation, but I think that in the current political climate, diversity is seen as an enemy to the American way of life. I am an outsider in the country I call home, and my cultural background has impacted the way I see the world.

My photo ethnography is based off my experience at a church in Olive Branch, Mississippi. The name of it is Saint Luke Church of God in Christ. Saint Luke is pastored by Elder Earl Shannon, is located in the beautiful city of Olive Branch, Mississippi. They offer a big selection of ministries designed to meet the needs of families in the Olive Branch area. Saint Luke is also nicknamed, “The Ark of the Community”. Saint Luke has a long history dating back to 1925. In 1925 Charles and Millississ Shannon established Saint Luke Church of God in Christ. Saint Luke started out with just about twelve members. Back then each church service was held in the homes of the members. Saint Luke's first pastor was Elder Bonner. Elder Bonner was succeeded

On the playground, I met who will soon to be my first best friend, shortly after I had my first kiss. Kissing a girl, I felt so scared of what it meant that I knew I had to make myself the way I believed was right. I thought the best way was denying and eliminating all feelings that I had of the opposite sex because I never saw two of the same sex could be together. Little did I know my mom is gay but, she was too afraid to talk about it at the time so, it led me to struggle with my sexuality growing up. I developed strong feelings for my best friend and I believed that I just loved her because she was my best friend. I quickly learned that I loved her in a stronger way and still not knowing how to deal with my feelings, I started to hate my

Our memories often time embellish the memories we once had of such great people, places, times, and etc. We live these times up to standard that makes us reminisce, hurt, contemplate and so much more. The power of a photograph has been described to have worth a thousand words, metaphorically meaning of course, that what an image can capture in one instance, something that may not ever be captured through words. For too many centuries we have been without, what many of us now take for granted, the photograph. What we capture in a picture, has much more value than we often time see in our commercials, people, places, they tell a story to the ignorant, paint a picture for blind, give the deaf something to listen to, and so much more.

Me: As I performed the posture test on myself I already knew that I would have proper posture. Due to the fact that when I was younger, I looked in the mirror and noticed that I had a slouchy posture. I had (Lordosis) and an anterior pelvic tilt, which made me look awful from a side point of view. I wanted to fix my posture and learned that I had weak abdominal muscles and tight hamstrings along with weak gluteus maximus muscles. As I learned how to fix my problem, I began doing exercises for those muscles for flexibility and strength gains. For my exercises in detail I began standing for a long period of time and would flex my gluteus maximus muscles and keep them tight for a period of time to strengthen them which would be for a few minutes. This fixed the slight curve in my lower back. The next step I performed was the same as with my gluteus maximus muscles but for my abs which helped keep a good posture naturally without thinking about my posture deviations and how to fix them. I could now begin to stand naturally with a good posture. The last step I did was stand against a wall with my back and neck flat against the wall and I would press my tongue against the top of my mouth to

I have a confession: I used to be racist. It wasn’t intentional or conscious in any way; I didn’t even realize it. I was merely an impressionable little girl, and when my parents made sly comments that implied black people are somehow genetically predispositioned for a life of crime and drug addiction, or that Muslims are misogynists and terrorists, or when they spewed any other number of atrocious stereotypes, I considered it fact. At that point in my life, my parents had supreme authority over me. They fed me, clothed me, sheltered me, and so their word was law. If they said black people were criminals, then surely black people must be criminals. If they said Muslims were terrorists, then surely they all were. My parents were basically gods;

My original topic I chose was intended to be the study of the shopping differences between men and women, with other factors being taken into consideration. I had picked this topic because I know in today’s society, women are pictured as over-emotional and over-spending who can’t control themselves. I wanted to somehow prove this wrong. During my four hours researching, I found that no one was buying anything. I decided to switch my question into something that was more applicable: Are people still buying things at the mall? I would watch as groups of people walk past carrying nothing. If no one was buying, why are malls still being built?

For my ethnographic project, I chose to experience the life at Islamic Center of Tucson, which is placed near the university of Arizona. For the purpose of this project, I will point to the Islamic center of Tucson as “The Mosque.” Ethnography is exploring culture phenomena which are the anthropologists understand societies from a research of a study. According to Eller, “participant observation by definition puts researchers skin to skin, life to life, with “subjects” who are living people. That fact demands a particularly self-conscious code of ethical behavior” (Eller 2013:37). The main focus of the paper is to observe the setting of the place from the outside, inside, human social interaction and language use.

Geography is much more than maps and places, it is a way of looking at the world around us. As a student I tend to understand world history, science, and politics better when presented in a visual map form, and this common throughout the academic and business world. Where one is located in this world will completely change their lifestyle, way of thinking, the plants and animals they see, the jobs that are around them, the sport team they root for, the food they eat, and the amount of money they have. If there is anything we can learn from geography, it is the importance of location despite the globalization of world. This study is based on physical part of the globe, but can go as deep into interpreting our earth as to determining what type

Queens is the most diverse borough in New York City, and one of the most diverse communities anywhere. To what Cultural or ethnic communities do you belong? Is there an art work (it can be a song, a piece of fine art, a dance or a performing art piece) that has a special significance in your culture? What is it and what does it signify to you?

This study was a qualitative ethnography exploring g perspectives on the customers of strip clubs and the stigma that comes with being a regular customer. I hypothesized that people would be more likely to perceive strip club patrons in an unfavorable light. For this study I did in depth interviews with three people, two men and one woman.

The practices and functions of personal photography have transformed significantly due to the break through of digital photography with the use of mobile technologies. This transformation can be explained by Ibrahim’s concept of ‘banal imagining’ in which images “record the daily routines, rituals and the events which mark out life’s movements” (Ibrahim, 2015, p.44). New digital technologies such as camera phones and digital cameras have facilitated this change in which photographs are increasingly being digitalised and are used to capture typical moments and mundane memories of everyday life other than rituals or special moments. In particular, the convenience of camera phones not only allow individuals to capture ‘Kodak moments’ and ‘banal

One area that was observed in this photo ethnography project had to do with the people walking all together as one unit. While marching, men and women had to walk separately. Men walked together and they were in the front of the march whereas women walked after and flowed the men. I had to walk with the woman. One thing that really interest me while walking in the march was that there were some volunteers distributing free food and drinks to the people undertaking the pilgrimage. When asking one of the marchers about the reason for providing water, she responded by saying, “Because the Imam Hussain was murdered thirsty, they killed him thirsty. They deprived him, his family, and companions of water. They used to throw water on the floor in