GS202 Chapter Notes -Voicemail
Document Summary
Developing a history on a topic using specific approaches such as political and social history (wikipedia) This article focuses on the development of the history of africans because of slave trade: the article raises the issue of how we can apply certain categories or ethnographic labels. The author begins with an autobiography to understand how an individual perceives their. By speaking about a few individuals about their experiences rather than summarizing about people in general the research becomes specific to those people and can"t be criticized for generalizing about people who the explanations don"t apply. It is also important because sweet is able to go more in depth about these individuals rather than only connecting surface details of the population like bourgois does. The author notes the differences between new an old media in how we perceive technology and how that can influence how we use different technologies.
