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Tiger Fan Ethnography (LSU)

Before veering into a discussion of the ethnography of Louisiana State University football fans and Tiger Stadium, it is essential to understand what is, exactly, ethnography. An ethnography is a form of social science research. Ethnography owes its roots to anthropology and sociology, but it is different than observational methods because it often includes personal interaction “Ethnography relies on up-close, experience-near participation…it usually includes intensive language and culture learning, intensive study of a single field or arena, and a blend of historical, observational, and interview methods” (What 1). Ethnography allows for the discovery and exploration of local viewpoints, in addition to afforded unique insight into specific categories of human experience from an up-close and personal perspective. The methods involved in ethnography allow for a bottom-up perspective as a means of broadening the traditional top-down point of view. The interactive nature of ethnographic research allows for often obscure aspects of human nature to reveal themselves to the researcher. This discussion will provide an ethnography of my interactive research among fans of the Louisiana State University (LSU) Tigers and their home, Tiger Stadium. In order to present this research, I attended three Tiger home football games and participated in three tailgate parties in the parking lot of Tiger Stadium.

Welcome to Death Valley if you dare! Long considered the most difficult road win, Tiger Stadium, home of the Louisiana State University Tigers, is known by this intimidating nickname. Tiger fans take their football seriously in a town that is often diagnosed by locals as having a “football problem.” Located in the heart of Baton Rouge, Tiger Stadium is one of the biggest college football venues in the country “Tiger Stadium, the fourth largest in the country behind stadiums at Michigan, Tennessee and Penn State, packs in ...

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