Skateboarding Style

Jennings, Rachel; Callahan, Alexa

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Title

Skateboarding Style

Author(s)

• Jennings, Rachel
• Callahan, Alexa

Issue Date

2009

Keyword(s)

• skateboarding
• style
• Fall 2009
• KIN 199

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This course, a First Year Discovery Program and Ethnography of the University Initiative (EUI), has two major interrelated aims: (1) The course introduces students to cultural ethnographic method/theory and criticism related to the study of contemporary sport and play. This is accomplished by sampling both older “classic” works and recent significant projects in the area of study. (2) Throughout the semester, students are engaged in group work that conducts original primary research/ fieldwork/ethnography centered on skateboarding and the University of Illinois community. The work of the semester is not so much on a final “polished” ethnography, but rather an ongoing reflection on issues such as: What are the key terms, questions, data, and significance of my unique project? Is sport a unique cultural formation? What about the anthropology of skateboarding and skateboard culture? What links can be made between my work and others' ideas/experiences? How can I make a difference with my project? What conflicts, issues, etc. may begin to reach resolution through the contribution of my work? In what genres/forms can we communicate the above to others?

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