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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>cultural bytes - Latest Comments in Interpretive Magic!: Ethnoconsumerism with Prof. Alladi Venkatesh</title><link>http://culturalbytes.disqus.com/</link><description></description><atom:link href="https://culturalbytes.disqus.com/interpretive_magic_ethnoconsumerism_with_prof_alladi_venkatesh/latest.rss" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:18:25 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Interpretive Magic!: Ethnoconsumerism with Prof. Alladi Venkatesh</title><link>http://culturalbytes.com/post/102381019#comment-65321439</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Interesting and thought-provoking!  I like how interpretive research (ethnomethodology, symbolic interactionism, phenomenoolgy) tells us "how" certain things are done.  To go beyond that in teaching, I've been assigning students readings or show films to show how people from different cultures do things differently--or how people of the same culture do things differently (but yet maintain a strange ground of similarity).  I've found it incredibly difficult to "display" culture without at least a contrasting example. &lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Gcchang</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:18:25 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>