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Field Notes: How to Take Them, Code Them, Manage Them 403
13 GIBSON (film) E-5 (1961) 1969 HIMBA
11:09:29 Picture Bride and companion walk toward hut, then
bride and unmarried girl drop to their knees and
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crawl into hut. People are seen sitting in front of
hut as the two disappear inside.
Sound The bride and their companions solemnly return
to the hut in Vesenga’s village where she has
been staying, and she and the unmarried girl
enter the hut.
11:29:30 Picture People sitting and standing near hut. 585*
Sound Women and children of the village, and those
visiting, from other villages, have gathered to sit
near the bride.
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11:42:22 Picture Boys seated eating meat. 585*
Sound Young boys eat together. 262
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11:45:10 Picture Meat in basket and men seated, eating. A man
standing and eating meat off a bone, places the
bone on a bush. The groom is seated, his arms
folded on his knees. He takes a piece of meat
from a pail on the ground between his feet.
Sound
The bridegroom and his friends are still seated
by the bower, where they are finishing.
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Figure 14.3. Gibson’s Coding of the Himba Films.
SOURCE: L. Kreiss and E. Stockton, ‘‘Using the Outline of Cultural Materials as a Basis for Indexing the
Content of Ethnographic Films,’’ Behavior Science Research, Vol. 15, pp. 281–93, 1980.
Short Description
Adoption Process
AP:Event chronology-official version
AP:Event chronology-subterranean
AP:Inside/outside
AP:Centrality
AP:Motives
AP:User fit
AP:Plan
AP:Readiness
AP:Critical events
Code
AP
AP-chron/pub
AP-chron/prov
AP-in/out
AP-cent
AP-mot
AP-fit
AP-Plan
AP-Redi
AP-crit
Figure 14.4. Part of Miles and Huberman’s coding scheme.
SOURCE: M. B. Miles and A. M. Huberman, Qualitative Data Analysis, p. 59. 1994 by Sage Publications.
Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications.