Tag: Fieldwork
“Playing gives experience” – a fieldwork photo blog
by Tessa Gruijs For my Master’s research I went to Ghana. In cooperation with a local NGO I got access to a couple of primary schools. There I…
‘Vat en sit’: South African men through the eyes of the women?
By Laetitia Simorangkir While conducting fieldwork for my research on the organization of care arrangements in South African communities, I surprisingly often ended up in situations where…
“Snapshots of Change” – How Focusing on Change Affects Perspectives on Research Material
Ever since the multiplication of protest movements that have gained prominence since 2011, the issue of change and its assessment has become a recurring topic in scientific research.…
3 Tips for Finishing Up Fieldwork
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…
3 Tips for Finishing Up Fieldwork
There is no easy end to fieldwork. Our job as anthropologists is to turn a slice of normal …
3 Tips for Finishing Up Fieldwork
There is no easy end to fieldwork. Our job as anthropologists is to turn a slice of normal …
3 Tips for Finishing Up Fieldwork
There is no easy end to fieldwork. Our job as anthropologists is to turn a slice of normal …
The reality of race: fieldwork experiences from Ghana
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 Khanty Bear Feast revisited
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…
Learning to Make People Laugh: A Semiotic Anthropology of Stand-up Comedy
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…
“I was nowhere”
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…
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…
A different kind of pilgrimage
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…
Veterinary Anthropology Workshop – Edinburgh 18th-19th April
http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/edcma/events/workshops_and_conferences/2015_2016/veterinary_anthropology_workshop
Ancestral Lines, Second Edition
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…
Fieldwork: A Day in the Life (Part I)
It’s nice to have a comfy home in the field. Fieldwork…
Fieldwork: A Day in the Life (Part I)
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…
Fieldwork: A Day in the Life (Part I)
It’s nice to have a comfy home in the field. Fieldwork…
Thinking with selfies
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…
Fieldwork: A Day in the Life (Part I)
It’s nice to have a comfy home in the field. Fieldwork…
Faded Paint and Yellowed Photos: On, Image, Inspiration, and Memory with Javier Urcid
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…
Squeezing one year of fieldwork in New Zealand in three months
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…
Exploring Boundaries: From Access to Female Sexworkers to the Question of Research
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…