Notes From the Field: Is this Skyrim?
Anthropologists go through some unique experiences as they conduct fieldwork. From experimenting with drugs to seeing people who have been dead for decades during a ceremony (read about…
Tag: ethnography
A New Home for Ethnography: The Use and Legacy of Ethnography by Anthropologists and Non-Anthropologists
Rhiannon and I are currently completing an article that looks at ethnography at this moment in time. One thread in this discussion is the way in which ethnography…
The Lost Jingle Dress
The Lost Jingle Dress is my first published piece of creative non-fiction. The story lauds the small, tight-knit community of Jasper, Alberta. I wrote it in 2014, and…
Notes on the 10th digital ethnography reading (Wacquant 2004)
Wacquant, L. J. D. (2004). Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Notes by Edgar Gomez Digital Ethnography Research Centre…
Podcast Pedagogy
This is the second in a two-part post in which Lindsay A. Bell (SUNY Oswego) describes her attempt to organize a senior seminar course around producing a podcast…
Illegal Immigration: a global problem
People are migrating across the globe in unprecedented numbers. More than 200 million people are residing in countries other than their home countries. Further, that number represents a…
Call for Papers and Visual Submissions: Photography and (con)text/Photography in Academic Research 8-9 September 2016
Via the Royal Anthropological Institute ‘photography + (con) text’ is pleased to announce a call for papers and visual submissions for a conference on ‘Photography in Academic…
Austerity Bites: Food Stories from Lewisham
Via Gabriela Nicolescu, Goldsmiths Exhibition organised by the Goldsmith’sDepartment of Anthropology Venue: Weston Atrium, Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths Private View: 24th May, 17.30 Dates: …
Canadian Anthropology and Cultural Imperialism: Criticisms
Is there a Canadian anthropology or is it just anthropology in Canada? If it is “anthropology in Canada,” then from where has it been imported? If what we…
Writing from research online
Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC) RMIT University, Melbourne PhD Community Writing Group 2 25 May 2016 Convener: Jolynna Sinanan This month, John Postill will lead the writing group…
CFP: Special Issue on “Ethnographies of Security”
See below a CFP for a special issue of the journal Qualitative Sociology on “Ethnographies of Security,” to be guest edited by Anthropoliteia contributor Rebecca Hanson The policies…
Suggestions for Summer Reading: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Struggle to Write
For the past couple of years I’ve been addicted to a series of books by the Norwegian writer, Karl Ove Knausgaard. Presented as fiction, these explore in minute…
Autism Spectrum Disorders in Global, Local and Personal Perspective: a conference report by Elizabeth Fein
Last September, a group of scholars gathered at the State University of Rio de Janeiro for “Autism Spectrum Disorders in Global, Local and Personal Perspective: A Cross-Cultural Workshop”.…
Dark Value, a new book published today
I wrote this brief book in 2015 and promptly put it in a drawer and forgot about it. Then a couple of days ago (May 3, 2016), Virginia Postrel posted…
Seminar: Indigenous Media 2016
Again, I have the pleasure to teach the Seminar “Indigenous Media” for the MA Program in Visual and Media Anthropology at the Free University Berlin. Find below a…
Life in America
This is the first in a two-part post in which Lindsay A. Bell (SUNY Oswego) describes her attempt to organize a senior seminar course around producing a podcast…
What is "sensemaking"? Anthropology in marketing
Quantitative research — which has long been the market research standard — can provide insights into broad patterns and customer metrics. While this ‘big data’ can tell a…
Make Ethnography Better
Ethnography has grown in the last couple of decades from a moody, friendless method in the social sciences to the bell of the business ball. But clearly it has…
Revisiting field interviews
I’ve been going back lately to my interviews with French philosophy teachers and students. I just never had time to transcribe or work on most of them during…
On the Brazilian crisis, Pentecostalism and thinking out of the bubble
Pentecostal service in the Brazilian field site. Photo by: Juliano Spyer Brazil is in the midst of a heated national debate between people in favour of, and those contrary…
Are nuances like curry leaves?
The title of this post – and its contents – was inspired by an anecdote I wrote about in an earlier post in my field blog. Before I…
‘Every Day is a Copy-And-Paste’: Waithood Among Tunisian Men
This morning I felt that I couldn’t bear this passivity any longer. I was sinking in my red plastic chair without anything to do. In those moments, when…
The Construction of Anthropological Knowledge and the Construction of Research
To mark the publication of the newest ethnography in the Teaching Culture series, Merchants in the City of Art: Work, Identity, and Change in a Florentine Neighborhood, the…