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flrdorothy

אשר סבידסנקי צלם | Asher Svidensky Photography - 1 views

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    This is the site of the photographer from the BBC News piece on "A 13-year-old eagle huntress in Mongolia." His own account is completely different from the BBC article. He is not, as BBC portrayed him, an ethnographer who stumbled onto a cultural shift in gendered activities-he is a storyteller who went looking for an unusual story, and made it happen. "I had gone looking for my eagle huntress. . .I was amazed by her comfort and ease as she began handling the grand eagle for the first time in her life." I have the same question I asked on the bookmark for the BBC article; why was it important to the BBC to represent this story as ethnography?
flrdorothy

BBC News - A 13-year-old eagle huntress in Mongolia - 0 views

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    Great example of using digital tools to conduct ethnography. Notice that not only does the photographer/travel writer show his pictures to the source community on his laptop, but he's staged a photo of that. The documentarist's relationship with his subjects becomes part of the story selected by the BBC writer for our consumption. I've been trying to puzzle out why that is. Does today's BBC readership want or expect reassurance of ethical cultural fieldwork? Does that picture demystify our exotic "13-year-old eagle huntress," or does it reinforce a contrast between the modern and the traditional in Mongolia? I'd be very interested in your thoughts.
flrdorothy

Hardcore Coddling: How Eleven Madison Park Modernized Elite, Old-School Service -- Grub... - 0 views

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    An upscale restaurant that both demands rigorous formal training in dining service, and googles customers to scoop demographic data and give them a deeply personalized experience.
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