Field Notes and Cultural Insights
When embarking on cultural research and documentation projects, the creation of field notes is an invaluable tool. Field notes capture not only information about community traditions and practices, but the “behind the scenes” activities of fieldworkers and their thoughts! The team of Chicago Ethnic Arts Project fieldworkers generated rich field notes and writing, such as on interviews they conducted with community leaders and artists across late 1970s Chicago. As outlined in the list below, each fieldworker was tasked with documenting particular cultural communities, as based on their backgrounds and expertise, corresponding to the writing they produced.
To locate documents for a specific cultural community according to the focus of each fieldworker, use this guide:
- African American Cultures - Beverly Robinson
- African American Cultures - Ralph Metcalfe
- Asian American Cultures - Chungmoo Choi
- German American Cultures - Antony Hellenberg
- Greek American Cultures - Peter Bartis
- Irish American Cultures - Mick Maloney
- Italian American Cultures - Elizabeth Mathias
- Jewish Cultures - Shifra Epstein
- Latinx Cultures - Philip George
- Lithuanian American Cultures - Elena Bradunas
- Native American Cultures - Roberta Fiske-Hajnal
- Polish American Cultures - Susan Kalcik
- Russian American Cultures - Greta Swenson
- Scandinavian American Cultures - Jens Lund
- Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, and Macedonian Cultures - Richard March
- U.S. Southerners in Chicago - Carl Fleischhauer
- Ukrainian American Cultures - Robert Klymasz
