In Joan Brumberg's "Body Projects", many different techniques as discussed in Fieldworking are discussed, most obviously the range of data supplied is truly revealing. Throughout the article, we are given insight into the journals and writings of several particular girls, as they go through their different "body projects". This article was written about a a time before when we think of women as having had severe body and self image problems, present day or maybe the 80's, and went back to the origin of those very issues in the early 1900's.
Without the careful examination and excellent implementation of the information and data found within those journals, this article simply would not have had nearly the impact or interest that it has now. As an ethnography, data is of course essential, but even more intrinsic to its value is the correct use of that very data. As we see and is discussed in Fieldworking, data is the skeleton and basis for all well conducted research, and a good example of that exact use of data can be found in Body Projects, an excellent article which quite effectively utilizes the data at its disposal.
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