Selling Dreams of the Good Life in Kazakhstan
In Kazakhstan, as in other countries around the world, multilevel marketing companies like Mary Kay appeal to potential recruits by promising new economic opportunities and a revitalized sense…
Author: Celia Emmelhainz
Snow goggles and rotten pears
Field records: Read early books and travel diaries Hundreds of American librarians and curators have put together the Digital Public Library of America, which lets you sea…
Ethnographic Field Data 3: Preserving and Sharing Ethnographic Data
[This is the final post in a three-part series on archiving and sharing fieldwork data.] Lisa Cliggett: How can we archive all this data? Two years ago, I…
Ethnographic Field Data 2: When Not-Sharing is Caring
In my last post, I recommended that we consider archiving and sharing records from our fieldwork. Yet sharing both raw notes and publications can present challenges, as Rex recently covered with…
Ethnographic Field Data 1: Should I Share my Fieldnotes?
[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Celia Emmelhainz.] “This will be your office,” Dr. Bernson* says, unlocking the storage room near her office. Tall wooden shelves frame rows of ethnography,…