Ethnography & Oral History

My project-thesis “Choctaw-Apache Foodways” depends on ethnographic fieldwork and oral history among the Choctaw-Apache of Ebarb community.

Gourds drying

Pepper Soup and Biscuits

Mr. Dick Sepulvado making tamales

I have written short, unpublished ethnographic papers on the following:

– Czech Cowboy culture

-Archaeologists and their relationship to the descendants of the people they study

-Native born American Buddhists

-Islamophobia in France, U.K., and Germany: What about the Czech Republic?

-French Market of New Orleans: A case of Continuity or Adaptive Reuse?

-Theravada Buddhism and Ethnic Identity in Texas

My hope is to continue researching the intersections of food and culture. I plan on writing a short article on the Zwolle Tamale Fiesta and ethnic identity in Sabine Parish. I have a research plan on a book on the relationship between grits and culture in the U.S. South, tentatively entitled, “How d’ you take your grits?”

I follow the ethical standards of the American Anthropology Association requiring informed consent, and the practices embodied in the Principles and Best Practices of the Oral History Association and the follow University requirements for Oral History under Human Subjects Institutional Review Board.

December 6, 2010 | Categories: Education, skills | Tags: aesthetics, American Indian studies,  religious studies, Central Europe, colonialism and imperialism, cultural diffusion, Czech Republic, economic  history, ethnicity and labor market segmentation Buddhism, ethnohistory, Foodways, French/Spanish/ American Indian borderlands, Geneaology, global labor migration, labor and working-class history, political economy, socio-cultural theory, South Asia, Spanish North American frontier | Comments Off on Ethnography & Oral History