When we hear about “quantitative” as well as “qualitative” research or analysis, we all know what these terms refer to. However, there are answers we will never have unless we stop searching for what we don’t see and start looking and listening to what we already have.I am working on a PhD thesis about Trentino-Tyrolean roots in North America -- the US as well as Canada -- focusing my attention on two specific aspects of heritage and migration stories:1. the “social networks” that people may use to get in touch with other people who share their own roots -- such as clubs, associations, conventions, newsletters, websites.2. the narrative depth and potential of some migration stories. The concept of a “journey” is purely narrative; so I am investigating how most of the narrative figures and gestures (of literature?) can be applied to and be borne out of minorities’ true stories. Specifically, I want to show the power of novel data collection techniques, since minorities rely upon their own stories and memories, and therefore probably tell us the best methods to learn about and understand those communities.I will begin with a review of the most important elements of group studies; then I will treat the characteristics that a successful story needs to possess, and finally I will compare social actors and group characteristics to the characters and mechanisms of storytelling to demonstrate how stories, communities, values, languages and costumes present us with new emerging issues as well as with new methodological insights and approaches.
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From the eighteenth to the early-twentieth century, a form of public exhibition in which the objects of display were ‘real people’ gained worldwide popularity. These colonial expositions, taking place all around the world, from New York to London, Vienna, Moscow, or Tokyo, were exhibiting ‘otherness’ by emphasizing physical and later politico-economic and socio-cultural differences of the displayed persons who were often ‘imported’ from overseas colonies. These forms of unequal representation are commonly referred to as ‘human zoos’ and are “exceptional in combining the functions of exhibition, performance, education and domination”. Even though the era of colonial human zoos ended in the 1940s, one can still observe similar developments and power relations in the context of modern ‘ethnic tourism’. In South-East Asia and China, several ‘ethnic villages’ and ‘ethnic theme parks’ exist that put on show exotic appearing ethnic minorities to paying domestic and international tourists. While some observers deplore these tourist attractions as modern human zoos, others argue that they may help preserving a rare culture and provide a source of income for the displayed ethnic groups. This article gives a short overview of the development of these questionable attractions that were transformed from cabinets of curiosities to colonial exhibitions and ethnic theme parks/villages, and discusses present examples from Thailand and Southern China.
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