Pg. 306 Questions

1. One visit to my field site, I interviewed the owner, Rob Garrison, of the archery shop. I was sitting across the counter of him in a high bar stool. He was sitting across from me in a bar stool with the cash register in front of him and a little to the left. Country music was playing on the radio, but it was not too loud because the music doesn’t want to disturb the shooters. While he was talking to me every so often he would grab a plastic cup to spit into it. Whenever he talked about a tip or a secret he would always lean over to me, within a foot, and talk real quietly.
2. The meaning of the recorded words are the answers to my mini ethnography. I am getting other people’s opinions on deer hunting. When I talked to Rob he brought up a lot of points that I had never thought of about deer hunting. He also said that when he lived back in West Virginia, the typical deer hunter was what everyone thinks of as a hunter, redneck, beer drinking, tobacco user, poor, and smells.
3. The way my informant talked was that he really loved to talk about deer hunting. When talking about previous hunts he was always talking louder and was very enthusiastic, but he was always serious too. He takes deer hunting serious so when he would maybe tell me a hint or other information he would talk softer and only to me so no one else could hear him. He would pause for a couple of seconds in the story for me to stop and think about what is going to happen. It would sometimes build up a suspense