In the Journals – November 2016
Welcome back to In the Journals, a monthly review of just a fraction of the most recent academic research on security, crime, policing, and the law. The year…
Tag: ethnography
Review: Handbuch der Medienethnographie
Budka, P. (2017). [Review of the book Handbuch der Medienethnographie, by C. Bender & M. Zillinger]. Paideuma. Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde, 63, 303-307. Der Sammelband „Handbuch der Medienethnog…
Perennial Narratives in Anthropology
Since the 1960s, there has not been any new, innovative or groundbreaking advances in the field of anthropology. Although some good work has been done, most of it…
Ethno everywhere! Workshop
The American Anthropology Association’s Annual Meeting hosted a workshop on November 16th about Ethnographic Writing. In this workshop, Ruth Behar from the University of Michigan and Marcia Ochoa…
Ethno everywhere! Workshop
The American Anthropology Association’s Annual Meeting hosted a workshop on November 16th about Ethnographic Writing. In this workshop, Ruth Behar from the University of Michigan and Marcia Ochoa…
Rereading Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Ethnographer”
Jorge Luis Borges 1951, by Grete Stern By Matthias Teeuwen I have read “The Ethnographer” and “Dr. Brodie’s Report” without thinking much of it. Sure, I had…
Anthropologists & Their Worlds (Les Possédés et leurs mondes)
The Université Laval in Quebec has launched a new series of interviews with (francophone) Canadian anthropologists: Les Possédés et leurs mondes (Anthropologists and Their Worlds). The audiovisua…
Anthropologists & Their Worlds (Les Possédés et leurs mondes)
The Université Laval in Quebec has launched a new series of interviews with (francophone) Canadian anthropologists: Les Possédés et leurs mondes (Anthropologists and Their Worlds). The audiovisua…
Some Drawing Exercises, or “Etudes”
Drawn to See: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method, by discussing how drawing is integral to seeing, encourages readers to consider drawing as a legitimate ethnographic method. To further…
Public anthropology: urgent yet undervalued
An education in anthropology encourages us to look beyond cultural assumptions. In the days following the results of the US presidential election, there has allegedly been a wave…
Drawn to See: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method
To mark the publication of Drawn to See: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method, author Andrew Causey provides the following thoughts on how drawing can also be used in…
Doing anthropology everywhere
In August we had posted about anthropologists doing work in dangerous contexts, highlighting the imprisonment of Dr. Homa Hoodfar in Iran. While Hoodfar has been released, her story…
Doing anthropology everywhere
In August we had posted about anthropologists doing work in dangerous contexts, highlighting the imprisonment of Dr. Homa Hoodfar in Iran. While Hoodfar has been released, her story…
Multimodality Through Twitter: Exploring the Alleyways of Seoul
Multimodality describes an anthropology across multiple media platforms–an anthropology that traverses film, photograph, theater, design, podcast, app and game (to name a few) as well as conventional…
Why the world needs anthropologists
We’ve been seeing some good discussions lately around what anthropologists can do – and why our perspective on the world is valuable, such as this Huffington Post Blog…
Why the world needs anthropologists
We’ve been seeing some good discussions lately around what anthropologists can do – and why our perspective on the world is valuable, such as this Huffington Post Blog…
The Anthropology of Trump: turning an ethnographic lens on Trumpland
Way back in March we posted about The Anthropology of Trump: It’s getting political in here (16 March 2016). In this earlier post, Jenn reviewed Paul Stoller’s analysis…
The Anthropology of Trump: turning an ethnographic lens on Trumpland
Way back in March we posted about The Anthropology of Trump: It’s getting political in here (16 March 2016). In this earlier post, Jenn reviewed Paul Stoller’s analysis…
Cultural #evidence and the law
How do we decide whether or not to accept the evidence of our senses, or to put our faith in the statements of others? These are questions we…
Chatting While Waterskiing, Part 3: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method
In this three-part blog series, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway of Oberlin College reflects on the challenges she has encountered in trying to incorporate drawing into her work as a linguistic…
Chatting While Waterskiing, Part 2
In this three-part blog series, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway of Oberlin College reflects on the challenges she has encountered in trying to incorporate drawing into her work as a linguistic…
World’s Most Vital Resource
It is not necessary to explain the process by which algae through millions of years of geological time and chemical reactions become fossil fuels such as oil,…
Chatting While Waterskiing, Part 1
In this three-part blog series, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway of Oberlin College reflects on the challenges she has encountered in trying to incorporate drawing into her work as a linguistic…
Ethnography & Tourism: Part III
Part of the blog-writing duo had the opportunity to travel from Canada to Japan for one short week. During this time, blogger Jennifer Long wanted to explore the…