Fieldwork: Highlights from the Textile Group
This post in the recent series on December 2017 research and travel in Guangxi, China was written by Carrie Hertz, who also provided the photographs. In this post,…
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Why #MeToo Is Complicated for Female Anthropologists
How do we ensure that the #metoo movements reach beyond both Hollywood’s red carpets and academia’s Ivory Towers, to areas where a shake-up is arguably most needed? How…
Call for Proposals: Awkward Moments
For National Awkward Moments Day, March 18, AN would like to hear about your awkward, amusing, embarrassing moments and learning experiences from the field: Have you accidentally uttered…
East Side Orchestras: Music and Social Change
I am currently working on a research project that looks at the social impacts of Arohanui Strings, Porirua Soundscapes, and Virtuoso Strings. These groups provide free, Sistema-inspired orchestral mus…
New Zealand-born and internationally raised
I am delighted to welcome writer Cileme Venkateswar to anthropod. This is the third post in my series on doing fieldwork with kids, and in it Cileme (who…
Fieldwork: Highlights from the Basketry and Architecture Group
I have been delayed in finishing up the series on the December 2017 trip to China that colleagues and I undertook. I am happy to return to the…
Three Lies of Digital Ethnography
anthro{dendum} welcomes guest blogger Gabriele de Seta, contributing the final post in the Private Messages from the Field series edited by Crystal Abidin and Gabriele de Seta. Three Lies of…
Carving a Niche between Software and Social Science: Anthropology in Industry w/ Natalie Hanson – This Anthro Life
Design and anthropology have been seen together with increasing frequency over the last few years, but how do design and anthropology fit together in relation to industry? And,…
Somewhere Between Here and There: Goldilocking Between Fieldwork and Academia
anthro{dendum} welcomes guest blogger Crystal Abidin, contributing the second post in the Private Messages from the Field series edited by Crystal Abidin and Gabriele de Seta. Somewhere Between Here a…
Ethnography & Case Study Research: Saying yes to the project
Over the past few Mondays, we have been posting on the recent case-study research project I worked on with OCWI. Working with OCWI on this short-term project was…
Ethnography & Case Study Research: Saying yes to the project
Over the past few Mondays, we have been posting on the recent case-study research project I worked on with OCWI. Working with OCWI on this short-term project was…
Fieldwork: Introduction (12/13-18)
Skip ahead six paragraphs (bypass those marked with an hash mark #) if you want to go straight to the start of the fieldwork stories. If you would…
Wissen/Schaffen: From #Fieldwork to #Exhibition – A photo essay
In 2016-17, I did fieldwork on the materials of scholarship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, an institute of advanced study. For this investigation, I worked with “the stuff…
Private Messages From The Field: Confessions on digital ethnography and its discomforts
anthro{dendum} welcomes guest bloggers Crystal Abidin and Gabriele de Seta who will be editing a series of blogposts in their collection Private Messages From The Field. To kick off the…
REDUX: “Cleaning Up the Streets” #AnthroState
Hillbrow, Johannesburg: It’s April 2008. I am in the lobby of the Ambassador Hotel, one of Johannesburg’s most happening nightclubs since the Apartheid era. As with the Hillbrow…
Doing fieldwork with kids: Part II
Thanks to some amazing role models in the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University, where I studied, I have always known that it is possible…
After the Workshop, Before the Fieldwork (12/12)
A photograph of the project team and special guests on the steps of the Anthropological Museum of Guangxi in Nanning. December 12, 2017. Photograph courtesy of the Anthropological…
Workshop on Ethnographic Methods in Museum Folklore and Ethnology
This post is the next in my series of reports on the trip to China that American museum colleagues and I took in December 2017. The Beijing posts…
Hurry Up and Wait, Part 2: Arrival – #RoR2018
After focusing my last couple weeks spending quality time with my loved ones, this week I have arrived in Dakar. This is my sixth time here and unquestionably…
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:…
Anthropology and the Rashomon Effect
A Reflection on Group Fieldwork. There is a high-fever-pitch limbic sensation of simultaneously registering something you heard or read as wrong, and the antsy, itchy, compulsion to raise…
Colonialism’s Orchestrated Disasters in Puerto Rico
“María, María, perdí la esperanza, María, María, perdí la esperanza.” I am reminded of these lyrics from the bomba group, Yuba Iré, when I see the pictures and…
Sample Boilerplate Language for Ethnographic Ethics Proposals
Blogger Jennifer Long has been spending lots of time (too much time) writing ethics proposals these days. However, many university-related ethics boards have very useful tips, tricks and…
Sample Boilerplate Language for Ethnographic Ethics Proposals
Blogger Jennifer Long has been spending lots of time (too much time) writing ethics proposals these days. However, many university-related ethics boards have very useful tips, tricks and…