Strange Ethnography

This week's reading is coming from just one book, Ways with Words, by Shirley B Heath. In these first six chapters she is examining the socio-historical development of Roadville and Trackton. What I find particularly disturbing is that her ethnographic study of these two communities actually read like narratives or stories in which different characters in these towns play a part. we are given a kind historical transformation from the days of slavery in the South, when inhabitants in these towns were engaged with textile production in mills, unto the days of education and refinement. Maybe, more reading will reveal the larger framework of her engagement with these two communities.