3 Tips for Finishing Up Fieldwork
There is no easy end to fieldwork. Our job as anthropologists is to turn a slice of normal …
There is no easy end to fieldwork. Our job as anthropologists is to turn a slice of normal …
There is no easy end to fieldwork. Our job as anthropologists is to turn a slice of normal life into a story, and stories generally require beginnings, mi…
There is no easy end to fieldwork. Our job as anthropologists is to turn a slice of normal …
Millicent, one of the staff members of the hostel where I stayed, and I. By Marije Maliepaard Recently my Colombian friend and I were talking about being white in a country like…
The honored bear’s head (Photo Antti Tenetz) I have visited the Western Siberian Khanty in the vicinity of the oil towns in the Surgut region for twenty years…
The Open-Mic Anthropologist The first time I performed stand-up comedy was in December 2015, at an open-mic club called On the Rocks. Gripped by nerves, I worried I…
By Marie Linne Dalal contaced me during my fieldwork among refugees who aspire to study in the Netherlands. She agreed to meet with me for an interview, to…
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…
Photograph by Neil Rickards By Dimetri Whitfield The most surprising thing for me about conducting fieldwork is that you encounter all these interesting people that ultimately do…
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At the core of the Teaching Culture series of ethnographies is John Barker’s Ancestral Lines: The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest. This…
It’s nice to have a comfy home in the field. Fieldwork…
It’s nice to have a comfy home in the field. Fieldwork…
It’s nice to have a comfy home in the field. Fieldwork is such an important – and mysterious – rite of passage in Anthropology. When y…
Kath Albury @KathAlbury continues our edition of ‘The Person in the (Big) Data‘ by talking about her research into young people and sexting. Instead of educating those who…
It’s nice to have a comfy home in the field. Fieldwork…
How does a camera and a deep sense of curiosity lead to a lifetime of archaeological research on ancient peoples, their symbols, art, and writing? Ryan and Aneil…
By Vivian Mac Gillavry Photo: A. Martineau During the first year of my Bachelor study in anthropology, we were told that the best field research should take at…
When designing a research project, a researcher’s initial plans are often interrupted by what data we actually can access. Whether negotiating political structures, cultural taboos, necessary permissi…
Returning home from hunting on our Husband’s country, fieldwork (2008) There are certain moments during fieldwork that anthropologists refer to as ‘Geertzian moments’ o…
[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Alix Johnson] I don’t intend to write about surveillance and suspicion, but then I spend my first five months of fieldwork feeling watched. …
Since our launch on the 29th February, the first three open access books in the Why We Post series have been downloaded over 6,000 times! 6,000 downloads in just…
By Jared Margulies, University of Maryland Baltimore County, photographs by Indra Kumar, reproduced with permission § Indra shows me some photographs he’s taken recently of a variety of animals. I’m…
By Micha Rahder, Louisiana State University § Let me start with a confession: I never wanted to work on climate change. Laguna del Tigre National Park, Guatemala. Photo…