Quickie

I need some good examples of ethnography (preferably a documentary film I could get my hands on quick-like). I guess I would consider fictional (film) examples as well, as long as they could lead into an interesting discussion of ethnographic research and/or reporting. This is for my next two teaching sequences which will be in two parts - 1. talking about ethnography, defining the genre and talking about its characteristics, gathering information about a community/landscape/civic issue/etc. and analyzing it 2. creating and presenting a project based on their research for a specific purpose and audience of their choice. This is deliberately broad, so that students may individualize their projects based on their interests/backgrounds/goals. I imagine their projects to be local, accessible, researchable, and practical.

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Hey, can anyone think of any good novels that alternate between first and third person? So far, I've come up with "The History of Love" and "No Country for Old Men."
I've been working on back story for my novel, and a first person character has popped up in what I was thinking would be a strictly third person novel. I'm just looking for more examples of this being done seamlessly.

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For those of you who didn't see on Facebook, I'm a finalist for a Fulbright grant to study in Macedonia for nine months (Project Title: The Mosques of Macedonia an Architectural and Literary Exploration a.k.a. Check out mosques, write a novel). Will probably not find out until very late spring.

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