Vamos a la lucha!
By Lieke Prins During the three months of my fieldwork in Medellín (the second-largest city in Colombia) I researched the political ideology of social science…
Tag: Fieldwork
#LondonVegans: Deliberating, sensing and practicing vegans in a non-vegan city
Zachary Hecht, UCL Digital Anthropology Msc Student Why would somebody forgo juicy steaks, delicate smoked salmon, velvety goat cheese, and the many seemingly delicious foods people eat? Why…
Digital Materialities: Design and Anthropology, Edited by S. Pink, E. Ardevol, and D. Lanzeni
Zachary Hecht, UCL Digital Anthropology I must admit, this review has been a long time coming. I was given Digital Materialities and asked to review it many…
On voting
Following the US election result, many people are asking just how all the pollsters got it wrong. Not just wrong, but so very wrong in anticipating the victory…
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…
Slam that #ethnography! – Imagine further
After a week of performed ethnographic poetry, Robert Desjarlais and Eileen Moyer wrap things up in their concluding remarks. If you haven’t read the posts yet, go back…
Slam that #ethnography! – It is what it is
Here’s yet another round of ethnographic slamming with contributions by Kristine Krause, Lex Kuiper, Marije de Groot, and Carola Tize. You should also check out the first and…
Slam that #ethnography! – Breaking boundaries
Welcome to part two of this week’s ethnography slam, this time with contributions by Josien de Klerk, Annelieke Driessen, Susanne van den Buuse, and Sarita Fae Jarmack. Missed…
Slam that #ethnography! – Introduction
Have you ever been in a conference room, listening to one presentation after another, only to realize that they all seemed strangely similar? As in, following the same…
The Fun of Student-Led Research
If you have been in a classroom recently, you probably noticed that students’ eyes are not always pinpointed to the professor. Many are concentrated on the suffused noise…
A Not-So-Wolfy Wall Street: A Study of Financial Players Risky Behavior and Their Proclaimed Elitism
The media and popular films like The Wolf of Wall Street have portrayed the financial world as a place of risky behavior, stress, and substance abuse, alimenting pre-existing…
#Reviews Week – and a Student-Led Research Project!
This week we have two new reviews for you, tackling the question of #race (see our #callforreviews here): Tomorrow, our frequent and much cherished reviewer Gabriela Radulescu explores…
Talking Anthropology: Podcasting and Its Potential for the Discipline (Part Two)
We’re back with another post from our friends at Teaching Culture blog! This time we explore podcasting and its potential for Anthropology. Here’s an excerpt, and be sure to…
Notes From the Field: Dwelling in the Worlds that Carry Us
After some field work in northern Canada, Marie-Pierre wrote two articles about how her field work experiences connected with imagined worlds. You should go read them, because they’re…
Talking Anthropology: Podcasting and Its Potential for the Discipline (Part Two)
By Adam Gamwell and Ryan Collins In our first post, we discussed the inspiration and goals behind, as well as the cosmology around, This Anthropological Life. In this…
Workshop: Collaborative dilemmas
Policymaking and implementation across state institutions, international organisations and transnational networks of civil-society organisations are expanding fields of anthropological research. The c…
UNESCO frictions: Heritage-making across global governance
Destructed under global media coverage, exalted as identity symbol, traded and purchased, heritage is taking on a growing and controversial role in the making of social and political…
Concept map: Ethnographie des Cyberspace (nach Ackermann, 2000)
Diese Concept Map visualisiert die wesentlichsten Punkte einer “Ethnographie des Cyberspace” nach Ackermann (2000). “Für die Ethnologie sind die sozialen Phänomene des Cyberspace ins…
Colleex: A Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation
Fieldwork, the cornerstone to the ethnographer’s magic, seems to be under siege in recent times. The invocation that it ‘is not what it used to be’ runs parallel…
CLEENIK: A clinic for ethnographic experimentation syndromes
Have you been affected by Ethnographic Experimentation Breakdown (EEB) or Excess of Engagement Stress (EES)? Are you suffering from breach-of-the-canon infection (BOTS)? Do you know how to detect…
Hunting in Northern Cyprus #Fieldnotes
November 2015; I proceeded ten metres behind Ertan Abi for much of the morning, a place in which I was not directly within the firing line but could…
Fieldwork then and now: from graduate student to professor
Dr. Weaver interviews a woman whose garden is the only consistent source of fresh vegetables for purchase in the Brazilian study community. I just returned from two fieldwork…
Anthrax outbreak on Yamal PENINSULA, not Tarko Sale PUROVSKI Yamal Okrug!
The Siberian Times and other english language sites report about the recent anthrax outbreak among reindeer in West Siberia in a slight geographical confusion . Ignore the maps…
Teaching about Indigenous Peoples and Cultures
Bob Muckle teaches at Capilano University in British Columbia. Researching, teaching, and writing about Indigenous peoples in North America is one of his specialties. Recent books include Indigenous…