Online Open Research – A collaborative approach
By Matthias Teeuwen – Some time ago I wrote a blog about the possibilities emerging technologies offer to the practice of qualitative research. Back then, I wrote that…
Tag: ethnography
Five Years of Teaching Culture
Five years ago this fall we launched an experiment. As an editor at a university press, with an interest in ethnographic methods and a mandate for publishing teaching-oriented…
Ep. #4 “Killer Docs, Imaginary Landscapes, Political Lies, and Emotional Risk:” this month on TFS
In this month’s panel discussion, Jodie (1:14) tells us about documents with agency: “Ideas just get up and grow legs, and they run away with themselves.” (Trigger warning:…
Everything You Thought You Knew about Orphans in Africa Is Probably Wrong
Policy makers, development workers, orphanage voluntourists, missionaries, prospective adoptive parents: ignore this book at your peril. “AIDS orphans” are commonly imagined as the…
Andrew S. Charles, Siuslaw Informant 1931
In 1931, the coastal tribes were in the midst of a lawsuit against the federal government. The tribes of the southern coast, between the California border and North…
Coming to Our Senses
In this Conversations episode of This Anthro Life, Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins explore the subject of sensory ethnography – a focus in anthropology that tends to deemphasize…
The Crêperie at Nanterre
The University of Paris-X at Nanterre is now just called Université Paris Nanterre. I went there this week to poke around in the archives of my fieldsite. On the…
Pre-made objects
I’ve been thinking lately about how, in ethnography, some objects of inquiry seem to come ready-made, almost pre-packaged, while others are so unclear, blurry, flou (in French), that it’s…
Making #AmAnth17 Manageable: The Teaching Culture Top 30
What would the AAA be without the Teaching Culture Top 30 list? Every year we scour the AAA program and try to winnow it down to a short…
Are You Living in Haste?
Can you engage in the present moment and let go of your other concerns while not engaged in a) an activity that demands all your attention (e.g. rock…
ethnoGRAPHIC: Extending Anthropology’s Reach, One Comic at a Time
Part of my job as an editor is to convince people to write the books I think they should write, not necessarily the ones they want to write.…
THE OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY COOPERATIVE: Towards an Online Public Anthropology
We attempt here to explore the relationship between anthropology, social media and public engagement through a web-based network that we helped to found and manage. We argue…
Agency, Upkeep, and Neglect in North Carolina Farm Labor Camps
by Bennett Heine In a recent article in Human Organization, co-authors Thomas Arcury, Sarah Quandt, and I draw from interviews with migrant farmworkers to conclude that agency matters.…
#MeToo: A Crescendo in the Discourse about Sexual Harassment, Fieldwork, and the Academy (Part 2)
UPDATED 10/29/17, 9:50 am: Edited to include links to helpful resources During the first few months of ethnographic research, many cultural anthropologists recognize that the training you received…
#MeToo: A Crescendo in the Discourse about Sexual Harassment, Fieldwork, and the Academy (Part 2)
UPDATED 10/29/17, 9:50 am: Edited to include links to helpful resources During the first few months of ethnographic research, many cultural anthropologists recognize that the training you received…
#MeToo: A Crescendo in the Discourse about Sexual Harassment, Fieldwork, and the Academy (Part 1)
Anthrodendum welcomes guest blogger Bianca C. Williams. Sunday night, October 15, I watched women across my social media timeline bravely and vulnerably share their stories of sexual assault…
Review: Crumpled Paper Boat
By Fawzia Haeri Mazanderani ***Originally published in LSE Review of Books*** Writer James Agee, when commissioned to bring back an enticing story for Fortune magazine about impoverished farmers…
Writing better Conference Abstracts and crafting better Posters
We originally planned to write this post for grad students, but really, couldn’t we all benefit fit from learning a bit more about how to write a great…
Framing Sukkot: Tradition and Transformation in Jewish Vernacular Architecture
Just in time for the holiday that is at its center, I am happy to trumpet the publication of Framing Sukkot: Tradition and Transformation in Jewish Vernacular Architecture…
Preface to the Coming World Crisis
Trump’s election has accelerated talk on the left of the end of (neo-) liberalism and the rise of fascism in the West. The prospects for world war seem…
The Event! Designing Human Futures
Dr. Paul Hartley came to McMaster last night to give us a talk about Reassessing our (i.e. Humans’) Relationship with Technology. The talk was extremely useful in that…
Explaining Ethnography in the Field: A Conversation between Pasang Yangjee Sherpa and Carole McGranahan
What is ethnography? In anthropology, ethnography is both something to know and a way of knowing. It is an orientation or epistemology, a type of writing, and also…
Explaining Ethnography in the Field: A Conversation between Pasang Yangjee Sherpa and Carole McGranahan
What is ethnography? In anthropology, ethnography is both something to know and a way of knowing. It is an orientation or epistemology, a type of writing, and also…
Note-taking: A ‘fieldwork device’ duplex? #Colleex
A re-description of my two-fold engagement as ethnographer-cum-documenter in the activist design collective En torno a la silla. Highlighting the importance of note-taking as a ‘fieldwork device’ for…