Sharing Experiences, Constructing Memories: An Ethnographic Report of Naturalists in the Field

摘要

Within this short research report, the author provides a succinct introduction to ethnographic fieldwork in a Midwestern U.S. state park and exhibits a small sample of data gathered from park interpretive naturalists that highlights ways that a group of naturalists perceive the construction of memories. Subsequently, the author explores a salient interpretation from the data, in which memories are dependent upon shared experiences and interactions. By highlighting one specific group of naturalists, this research sheds light on how they conceive their role in the memory construction of others.